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FERVOUR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feelings of great warmth and intensity
Example:
he spoke with great ardor
Synonyms:
ardor; ardour; fervency; fervidness; fervor; fervour; fire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("fervour" is a kind of...):
passion; passionateness (a strong feeling or emotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fervour"):
zeal (excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
Example:
he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation
Synonyms:
excitation; excitement; fervor; fervour; inflammation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("fervour" is a kind of...):
emotional arousal (the arousal of strong emotions and emotional behavior)
Attribute:
exciting (creating or arousing excitement)
unexciting (not exciting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fervour"):
fever pitch (a state of extreme excitement)
sensation (a state of widespread public excitement and interest)
Context examples:
“Thank you,” he returned, with fervour.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And try to restrain the disproportionate fervour with which you throw yourself into commonplace home pleasures.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I suppose he saw something in my face which checked him, for he suddenly stopped, and said with a sort of manly fervour that I could have loved him for if I had been free:—'Lucy, you are an honest-hearted girl, I know. I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit, right through to the very depths of your soul. Tell me, like one good fellow to another, is there any one else that you care for? And if there is I'll never trouble you a hair's breadth again, but will be, if you will let me, a very faithful friend.'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on Heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I exclaimed, in a state of high ecstatic fervour, that not a moment's consideration could be necessary.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If Miss Ingram had been a good and noble woman, endowed with force, fervour, kindness, sense, I should have had one vital struggle with two tigers—jealousy and despair: then, my heart torn out and devoured, I should have admired her—acknowledged her excellence, and been quiet for the rest of my days: and the more absolute her superiority, the deeper would have been my admiration—the more truly tranquil my quiescence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In the fervour of this impression, I congratulated Mr. Micawber on the treasure he possessed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A sort of instinct seemed to warn him of her entrance, even when he did not see it; and when he was looking quite away from the door, if she appeared at it, his cheek would glow, and his marble-seeming features, though they refused to relax, changed indescribably, and in their very quiescence became expressive of a repressed fervour, stronger than working muscle or darting glance could indicate.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Have I the pleasure of again beholding Copperfield! and shook me by both hands with the utmost fervour.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative and comment, that their fluency covered St. John's taciturnity: he was sincerely glad to see his sisters; but in their glow of fervour and flow of joy he could not sympathise.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
