单词 | perfervour |
释义 | perfervourperfervorn. The state or condition of being perfervid; ardour, passion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] > very fervid quality perfervour1859 perfervidity1884 perfervidness1884 1859 Times 5 Jan. 11/5 Mr. Palk stamping up and down the passages of the House of Lords in all the perfervour of olfactory indignation. 1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. II. 466 This perfervor of our Scottish love poetry. 1939 Burlington Mag. Jan. 3/1 Against those handicaps genius, perfervor and frugality have won their way. 1988 B. Hilton Age of Atonement vi. 229 Peel's religious propensities were paraded with much less perfervour. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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