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fervent

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1. fervent - Adjective

2. fervent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.

Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. Franz Liszt

There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty. Jimmy Carter

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Walter Lippmann

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife. Stephen L. Carter

It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range. John Updike

Our spirits most fervent we place in Thy care. Icelandic Proverb

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