Synonyms:
ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness
Meaning: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
Usage examples
An inexpressible fervor of serenity
In a word, an almost poetical fervor prevailed.
In the evening, as I sat staring at my book, the fervor of his voice stirred through the quantities on the page before me.
But he allowed his vehement fervor to carry him into such flights as left the reporters unable to accompany his sentences throughout.
She seemed deeply embarrassed and agitated at the fervor of my greeting; while I, instead of apologizing or trying to excuse myself, only grew more agitated still.
It has been remarked that in times of great religious fervor men sometimes change their religious opinions; whereas in times of general scepticism everyone clings to his own persuasion.
He alone knew the amount of the large fortune of his sometime client, and his fervor was inevitably increased by the cupidity of greed, and by the consciousness that he wielded an enormous power, the power of life and death in the district.
Indeed, the Baron's perverse attachment to his lately-acquired charger--an attachment which seemed to attain new strength from every fresh example of the animal's ferocious and demon-like propensities--at length became, in the eyes of all reasonable men, a hideous and unnatural fervor.
In England the fierce fervor of the Chartist movement, with its violent rhetoric as to the rights of man, was sobering down and passing pervasively into numerous practical schemes for social and political amelioration, constituting in their entirety a most profound change throughout every part of the national life.
William Lloyd Garrison, the boldest and most aggressive non- resistant that ever lived, had, since 1831, been pouring forth once a week in the "Liberator" his earnest and eloquent denunciations of slavery, taking no account of the expedient or the possible, but demanding with all the fervor of an ancient prophet the immediate removal of the cause of offense.