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fervour, fervor|ˈfɜːvə(r)|
Also 6 fervoure, 7 ferver.
[ME. fervor, -our, a. OF. fervor, -our (mod.F. ferveur) = Pr. and Sp. fervor, It. fervore, ad. L. fervōre-m, f. fervēre to be hot. For use of fervour or fervor see favour.]
1. Glowing condition, intense heat.
c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxxiv, They..panten soo strongly that they brast into bodily feruours. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 1164/2 These prayers..of his holye Martirs, in the feruoure of theyr torment. 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1317 A number of Lamps which..yeelds vnto the roome an immoderate feruor. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 184 Some power divine..Sent a tall stag..To cool his fervour in the chrystal flood. 1794Mrs. Piozzi Synon. I. 207 Such effects follow naturally the fervour of an African climate. 1813Shelley Q. Mab viii. 71 Those deserts..whose..fervors scarce allowed A bird to live. 1891Sir R. Ball in Melbourne Argus 16 May, The moon was also doubtless in a condition of equal fervour.
†b. Of water: Boiling, seething. Obs.
a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's 43 The swellynge [sea], yn his feruor..leift vp hym-self. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 324 All fervour or seething is not caused by fire.
2. Warmth or glow of feeling, passion, vehemence, intense zeal; an instance of the same.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 250 Fervor of thoght. 1382Wyclif John ii. 17 The feruour of loue of thin hous hath etun me. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 363 b/1 She..had more feruour of deuocion. 1531Dial. on Laws Eng. ii. liii. (1638) 160 A veniall sinne..letteth the fervour thereof [charity]. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. I. 30 Such fervour is as well beseeming fresh souldiers as young Fryers. 1732Law Serious C. xiv. (ed. 2) 240 And begin to know what Saints..have meant by fervours of devotion. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I III. ix. 196 The fervour of loyalty vied with the pride of magnificence. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens iii. 50 A fervour unique even in the history of American enthusiasms. |