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ferventness Now rare.|ˈfɜːvəntnɪs|
[f. fervent + -ness.]
The quality of being fervent.
1. Boiling, burning, or glowing heat; = fervour 1.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. ix. (1495) 379 Smalle asshes..slakyth..the feruentnes of the cole. 1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 73 a, It [melancholy] may not be so littell, that the bloud and spirites in their ferventnes, be as it were unbridlyd. 1586Bright Melanch. xxvii. 153 Although it [water] be hote, yet inferiour in degree to the heate of feruentnes. 1600F. Walker Sp. Mandeville 46 b, The great feruentnes of the hot starres.
2. Ardour, eagerness, vigour, zeal; also an instance of the same; = fervour 2.
c1430Wyclif's Num. xxv. 11 [MS. S], Y my silf schulde not do awai the sones of Israel in my greet hete [feruentnesse of veniaunce]. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 133 Whyche wil not be wele..stered for the feruentnesse of the same tempest. 1528Tindale Parab. Mammon Wks. I. 84 Christ here teacheth Simon by the ferventness of love. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1632) 581 The Archbishops feruentness in using such eager perswasions. 1631Celestina iii. 40 His..ferventnesse of affection is sufficient to marre him. 1727Bailey vol. II, Ferventness. |