- 1熱切的、熱誠的
If you are fervent, you believe something or feel something very strongly, and you mean it. It is not a , everyday word; it sounds a little careful, even a little old-fashioned, and you meet it more in writing and speeches than in chat. People use it for feelings that run hot in a sincere way: a fervent hope, a fervent believer, a fervent supporter of a team or a cause. The heat in the word is old. It comes from Latin for burning or boiling, so the feeling is “on fire,” but usually not angry fire — more like a hope or a faith that will not cool down. Stronger than keen, more serious than . You can be fervent about religion, justice, a wish, or even a sports club; the word does not judge whether the cause is wise, only that the feeling is deep and real.
組成From Middle English and Old French fervent, from Latin ferventem, “burning, hot, zealous,” the participle of ferveō, “to burn; to be hot; to be fired up.” Ultimately from a root meaning to boil.
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ferventadj/ˈfɜːv(ə)nt/
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Very hot; burning, scorching; also, glowing with heat.
- Lo here hath euery fayth[f]ull man a ſure promiſe, yͭ in the feruent heate of tentacion or tribulacion […] God gyueth the faythful man yͭ hopeth in him, yͭ ſhadow of hys holy ſhoulders, which are brode ⁊ large, ſufficient to refrigerate ⁊ refreſhe the man in that heate, and in euerye trybulacion he putteth hys ſhoulders for a defence betwene.
- But the day of the Lord wil come as a thiefe in the night; in the which the heauens ſhall paſſe away with a great noiſe, and the Elements ſhall melt with feruent heate, the earth alſo and the works that are therin ſhalbe burnt vp.
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obsoleteOf cold: intense, severe.
- [A] feruent colde countrey, vnder whiche a colde ſeaſon ſhulde be comprehended, whiche alſo letteth bloud lettyng: for in a countrey and ſeaſon very colde, the blud is cloſed in the depeſt partis of the body, and the bloud that tarieth in the vtter partis, the colde makethe thycke, whiche to voide is no wyſedome.
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obsoletehistoricalOf a drug: having an abundance of heat as one of the four qualities believed to be characteristic of all things; hot rather than cold, dry, or moist.
- The common Camomill is of complexion hoate and dry, and not ſo feruent as the Romaine Camomill, but more pleaſant and gentill.
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Of a person, or their actions, interests, or nature: exhibiting persistent belief or conviction, and enthusiasm or zeal; ardent, earnest, passionate.
- Butt above all thyngꝭ [thynges, i.e., things] have fervent love a monge you. For love covereth the multitude of ſines.
- Two thinges haue mooued me (moſt noble Princeſſe) hauing newly tranſlated into Engliſh this Herball or Hiſtorie of Plantes […] The other was, that earneſt zeale, and feruent deſire that I haue, and a long time haue had, to ſhewe my ſelfe (by yeelding ſome fruite of paineful diligēce [diligence]) a thankeful ſubiect to ſo vertuous a Soueraigne, ⁊ a fruitful member of ſo good a cõmon [common] Weale.
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archaicOf a thing such as a battle, unrest, etc.: intense, severe; also, of a wild animal: fierce.
- When the battel is hotteſt ⁊ in al places moſt fierce ⁊ feruent, a bende of choſen and picked yong men, which be ſworne to liue ⁊ dye togethers, take vpon them to deſtroye theire aduerſaries capitaine, hym they inuade now with preuy wyeles, now by opē [open] ſtrength.
- [T]here appeared vnto th^ẽ [them] a bore of a monſtrous ſhape, vvonderfull fat, vvith horrible haire, a skin ſet vvith ſtanding briſtles, rough vpon the back, & his mouth continually foaming out aboundance of froath, & the ſound of his gnaſhing teeth ringing like the ratling of armor; hauing fire-burning eies, a deſpitefull looke, a violent force, and euery vvay feruent: […]
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