fervour
enthusiasm (Begeisterung)
TRANSLATION
fervour = die Begeisterung, der Eifer, die Glut [fig.], die Inbrunst, die Leidenschaft
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Religious fervour grips Iraq's Shia pilgrims - Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims are thronging the streets of the central Iraqi city of Karbala for the climax of a religious pilgrimage that was banned for a quarter of a century.
(BBC News - 22 April 2003)
Typical business phrase:
She began her job with great fervour, but then the disillusionment started.
(BBC News - 22 April 2003)
Typical business phrase:
She began her job with great fervour, but then the disillusionment started.
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fer-vour (Brit.) fer-vor (Amer.)
Meaning:
1. Great warmth and intensity of emotion. See Synonyms at passion.
2. Intense heat.
Origin: Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor, from fervre, to boil.
Synonyms: passion, fervor, fire, zeal, ardor (ardour)
These nouns denote powerful, intense emotion.
PASSION is a deep, overwhelming emotion: “There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy” (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). The term may signify s-ex.ual desire or anger: “He flew into a violent passion and abused me mercilessly” (H.G. Wells).
FERVO(U)R is great warmth and intensity of feeling: “The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal” (William James).
FIRE is burning passion: “In our youth our hearts were touched with fire” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).
ZEAL is strong, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance: “Laurie [resolved], with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for... women with artistic tendencies” (Louisa May Alcott).
ARDO(U)R is fiery intensity of feeling: “the furious ardor of my zeal repressed” (Charles Churchill).
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Meaning:
1. Great warmth and intensity of emotion. See Synonyms at passion.
2. Intense heat.
Origin: Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor, from fervre, to boil.
Synonyms: passion, fervor, fire, zeal, ardor (ardour)
These nouns denote powerful, intense emotion.
PASSION is a deep, overwhelming emotion: “There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy” (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). The term may signify s-ex.ual desire or anger: “He flew into a violent passion and abused me mercilessly” (H.G. Wells).
FERVO(U)R is great warmth and intensity of feeling: “The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal” (William James).
FIRE is burning passion: “In our youth our hearts were touched with fire” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).
ZEAL is strong, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance: “Laurie [resolved], with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for... women with artistic tendencies” (Louisa May Alcott).
ARDO(U)R is fiery intensity of feeling: “the furious ardor of my zeal repressed” (Charles Churchill).
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
