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Ardency

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being ardent.; Intensity of feelings. countable, uncountable

    "So is their ioyes with fearefull passions mixt, Which doth encrease the ardencie of loue, On the forbidden thinges our eyes are fixt;"

  2. 2
    The quality of being ardent.; Intensity of devotion. countable, uncountable

    "1548, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached on 22 March, 1548 in 27 Sermons, London: John Day, 1562, p. 46, He repayred to God with this prayer, and said nothinge. Yet wyth a great ardency of spirit, he pearsed Gods eares."

  3. 3
    The quality of being ardent.; Intensity of heat or burning. countable, uncountable

    "1596, Francis Sabie, “David and Beersheba” Adams Complaint, London: Richard Johnes, Field-tilling Swains driue home their toiling teams, Out-wearied with ardencie of heat:"

  4. 4
    The quality of being ardent.; Intensity of light. countable, uncountable

    "One could not look a moment, without a weeping of the sight, into the blinding ardency of the western atmosphere, so charged was it with the ceaseless gushing of the crimson glory;"

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