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noun

Ardor n. (Spelt also ardour)

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.

pl. Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. (Thus used by Milton.)

Synonyms: Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor.

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Etymology of 'Ardour'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... wishes, he still suspects that he is not loved enough. This temper, I must own, has cost me many unhappy hours; but I have learned to think myself his debtor, for those imperfections which arise from the ardour of ...

— The Rivals - A Comedy • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

... beheld the ardour of her son, she smiled in her spirit because that his fire was like to that of his father. And she opened her mouth ...

— Legends That Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... an old hereditary enemy of France would naturally stimulate this zeal by a sentiment of martial pride, by a sense of danger always threatening, and of hatred always smouldering. That great four-headed road was a perpetual memento to patriotic ardour. To say "This way lies the road to Paris, and that other way to Aix-la-Chapelle; this to Prague, that to Vienna," nourished the warfare of the heart by daily ministrations of sense. The eye that watched for the gleams of lance or helmet from the hostile frontier, the ear that listened ...

— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey

... say that God is the object of my supreme passion. I have cherished, in his presence, a single and upright heart. I have thirsted for the knowledge of his will. I have burnt with ardour to approve my faith and ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

... far from the loss they had sustained having damped the ardour of the enemy, they kept on sending in the arrows more thickly, but without doing us—thanks to our position and the breastwork—the ...

— Bunyip Land - A Story of Adventure in New Guinea • George Manville Fenn

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