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Meanings of fervid in English

Characterized by intense emotion.

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Usage of fervid in English
1
In the torrent of fervid conceptions, I lost sight of my purpose.
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
2
He lived in days calculated to chill the most fervid religious enthusiasm.
Levels of Living / Essays on Everyday Ideals
3
Not that the lesson would check the fervid flow of real desire.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
4
In these fervid and fecund waters life is real, life is earnest.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
5
She was returning the fervid pressure of his fingers, warm and electric.
The Man from Brodney's
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He was so ardent, so fervid a lover that I was conquered.
The Hampstead Mystery
7
The man's whole life was spent in this one wild, fervid prayer.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
8
This belief seems to have taken shape first in Paul's fervid mind.
The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
9
He was interrupted, at times, by cries of fervid but mock admiration.
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
10
Their acquaintance, though so fervid, had been too brief for such lingering.
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
11
He missed the old man's comradeship with a deep and fervid longing.
The Sky Line of Spruce
12
He has come before the dawn had risen-sofervid is his zeal.
Protagoras
13
Was it because his fervid manner of love-making offended her English phlegm?
The Old Wives' Tale
14
By this time the entire district was in fervid sympathy with General Ople.
The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper
15
Elsewhere, however, a coolness of observation replaces such fervid, fetid atmospheres.
The Guardian
16
And before noon the whole village was in a fervid state of commotion.
Rose of Old Harpeth
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