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FERVENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(archaic) extremely hot, burning, or glowing
Example:
set out...when the fervid heat subsides
Synonyms:
fervent; fervid
Classified under:
Similar:
hot (used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning)
Domain usage:
archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Characterized by intense emotion
Example:
a torrid love affair
Synonyms:
ardent; fervent; fervid; fiery; impassioned; perfervid; torrid
Classified under:
Similar:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Derivation:
fervency (feelings of great warmth and intensity)
Context examples:
She felt that Jane's feelings, though fervent, were little displayed, and that there was a constant complacency in her air and manner not often united with great sensibility.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Whitcross regained, I followed a road which led from the sun, now fervent and high.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My letter to Agnes was a fervent and grateful one, narrating all the good effects that had resulted from my following her advice.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
She thanked him with brief, though fervent gratitude, and while he went to hurry off his servant with a message to Mr. Harris, and an order for post-horses directly, she wrote a few lines to her mother.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
That he did not regard it as a desperate case, that he did not say a few hours must end it, was at first felt, beyond the hope of most; and the ecstasy of such a reprieve, the rejoicing, deep and silent, after a few fervent ejaculations of gratitude to Heaven had been offered, may be conceived.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlet here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you. You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She gave me no advice; she urged no duty on me; she only told me, in her own fervent manner, what her trust in me was.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Marianne restored to life, health, friends, and to her doting mother, was an idea to fill her heart with sensations of exquisite comfort, and expand it in fervent gratitude;—but it led to no outward demonstrations of joy, no words, no smiles.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
