Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fervent"
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) 1.7 (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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