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adjective

Fervent adj.

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. "The elements shall melt with fervent heat."

Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing. "Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit." "So spake the fervent angel." "A fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind." "Laboring fervently for you in prayers."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fervent" Quotes from Famous Books

... awful sacrifice, our high duty; we have before us the noblest of purposes; we are fighting with hands that are clean, with consciences that are clear, and with hearts that are inspired by the courage of conviction. It is our fervent hope and our faithful belief that if, in spite of our wicked lack of preparation and our subsequent incredible follies, Heaven grants us a good victory, we shall use it to further the advance of humanity towards the goal of the ...

— Freedom In Service - Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government • Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw

... the woman be a living realization of the child," was the fervent prayer that dwelt upon Phillip Lawson's lips, as he drew the child towards him and tenderly ...

— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour

... the traveller recognizes her again and again in other galleries, in the many replicas of this charming composition. The Madonna kneels in the foreground, adoring with folded hands the child, who is supported in a sitting posture on the ground, by a guardian angel. The Virgin's face is full of fervent and ...

— The Madonna in Art • Estelle M. Hurll

... Humanity is composed of two sexes, and woe be to those who attempt to separate them into distinct bodies, making of each half one whole! It has been tried in monasteries and convents with but poor success, yet what our fervent Protestants do not seem to see is that we are reconstructing a similar false system for our young people without the safeguards and the restraints of convent walls or the sanctifying influence of religious conviction. The ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

... and docile mind, not only to new fields of written knowledge, but to many of the secrets of Nature, subtle or sublime. He had a wide range of scientific as well as literary lore; the stars, the flowers, the phenomena of the physical world, afforded themes on which he descanted with the fervent love of a poet and the easy ...

— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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