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noun

Vehemence n.

The quality or state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence of the wind; to speak with vehemence.

Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions. "I... tremble at his vehemence of temper."

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Etymology of 'Vehemence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vehemence" Quotes from Famous Books

... great Latin Orator very much impaired his Health by this laterum contentio, this Vehemence of Action, with which he used to deliver himself. The Greek Orator was likewise so very Famous for this Particular in Rhetorick, that one of his Antagonists, whom he had banished from Athens, reading over the Oration which had procured his Banishment, and seeing his Friends ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... she 's high of color and mighty of muscle and with equal vehemence says a thing is "strawdn'ry" whether it 's a dewdrop or a ...

— The Lady and Sada San - A Sequel to The Lady of the Decoration • Frances Little

... to be professor of Greek; he wrote the first Protestant work in dogmatic theology, entitled "Loci Communes," and drew up the "Augsburg Confession"; the sweetness of temper for which he was distinguished, together with his soberness as a thinker, had a moderating influence on the vehemence of Luther, and contributed much to the progress of the Reformation; he was the Erasmus of that movement, and combined the humanist with the Reformer, as George Buchanan did ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... appeared that the two ladies had many experiences in common. Mrs. Colwood had been two years, her two short years of married life, in India; Diana had travelled there with her father. Also, as a girl, Mrs. Colwood had spent a winter at Cannes, and another at Santa Margherita. Diana expressed with vehemence her weariness of the Riviera; but the fact that Mrs. Colwood differed from her led to all the ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... out of one's own keeping. I should not so much dislike Margaret's knowing, but I won't have Flora know—mind that, Ethel," he said, with disproportionate vehemence. ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

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