ardour

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Meaning

intense feeling of love

feelings of great warmth and intensity

a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)

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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer. John Keats

Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Radiant with ardour divine! Beacons of Hope ye appear! Languor is not in your heart, Weakness is not in your word, Weariness not on your brow. Matthew Arnold

Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour. Anthony Burgess

In life no such colour brightened the grey picture of a man devoted to the daily study of warfare on several continents with all the ardour of a certified public accountant. Alistair Cooke

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. Karl Marx

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