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Ardent

adjective

Characterized by intense emotion. Synonyms: fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid. "An ardent lover" , "A fervent desire to change society" , "A fervent admirer" , "Fiery oratory" , "An impassioned appeal" , "A torrid love affair"

Characterized by strong enthusiasm. Synonym: warm. "Warm support"

Glowing or shining like fire. "Frightened by his ardent burning eyes"

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... had an ardent passion.... His whole being quivered when she bathed his forehead with her light ocean breeze. She, alone, knew how to rock and soothe him ...

— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... he mumbled peevishly, "It took you some time to come! I began to think the whole smart lot of you had been washed overboard. What kept you back? Hey? Funk?" We said nothing. With sighs we started again to drag him up. The secret and ardent desire of our hearts was the desire to beat him viciously with our fists about the head; and we handled him as tenderly as though he ...

— The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle • Joseph Conrad

... rather ardent, and he is now standing nearer to her than the size of the garden necessitates. So GRACIOSA demurely steps down from the bench, and sits at ...

— The Jewel Merchants - A Comedy In One Act • James Branch Cabell

... knoll, their heads close together, engaged in earnest and animated and sometimes loud-voiced conversation. There was occasion for their lively interest. They were discussing the Fourth of July. They were about equally ardent, but if there were any difference it was in favor of Cocoanut, who, within the year, had become probably the most earnest American citizen upon the face of the civilized globe. His information regarding the United States and American ...

— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo

... then," she continues, blushing under the ardent look that has accompanied his words, "the queer part of it lies in the fact that a transom over my door was partly open. There was a black paper back of the glass, which gave it the ...

— Miss Caprice • St. George Rathborne

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