Fervor
//ˈfɜː.və// noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. US, countable, uncountable
"The coach trains his water polo team with fervor."
- 2 feelings of great warmth and intensity wordnet
- 3 A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. US, countable, uncountable
- 4 the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up wordnet
- 5 Heat. US, countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"Their religious fervor was unparalleled."
Etymology
From Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent.
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