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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fervent \Fer"vent\, a. [F. fervent, L. fervens, -entis. p. pr of fervere o the boiling hot, to boil, glow.] 1. Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. --2 Pet. iii. 10. 2. Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing. Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit. --Rom. iii. 11. So spake the fervent angel. --Milton. A fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. --Macaulay. -- {Fer"vent*ly}, adv -- {Fer"vent*ness}, n. Laboring fervently for you in prayers. --Col. iv 12. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fervent adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: {ardent}, {burning(a)}, {fervid}, {fiery}, {impassioned}, {perfervid}, {torrid}] 2: sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"; "a fervent hope" [syn: {cordial}] 3: extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope [syn: {fervid}]
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