ADJECTIVE
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characterized by intense emotion
an ardent lover
a torrid love affair
ardent love
a fervent admirer
fiery oratory
an impassioned appeal
a fervent desire to change society
How To Use perfervid In A Sentence
- The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath. Ulysses
- The proverbial "canniness" of the Scottish nation was all upon the one side; the equally proverbial _perfervidum ingenium_ was all upon the other. Chronicles of Strathearn
- It's a little known fact that during Palin's many undergraduate years, when she wasn't davinning while wearing her Magen David, she was a perfervid reader of fiction and one of her favorite authors was Borges and one of her favorite books by Borges was the classic collection, Labyrinths. Mark Axelrod: The Palin Borges Connection; or, What's History Got to Do With It?
- I suspect that the various principles texts being cooked up by various George Masonites will not be so perfervid in their single-minded, ideological tub-thumping along pro-laissez faire lines. I Heart Textbook Authors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- The constant development of economy and trade in East Asia has led to unprecedented intense competition among ports in container transportation, which has now reached a perfervid state.
- I suspect that the various principles texts being cooked up by various George Masonites will not be so perfervid in their single-minded, ideological tub-thumping along pro-laissez faire lines. I Heart Textbook Authors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- He was vacillating, bombastic, insecure and perfervid by turns, but his poetry is as delicately complex as any.
- Segregation was the perfervid cause of an intimidating minority, who kept everyone else in line through the threat of violence. History
- The point is that Lost is to its most avid fans what Beatles albums were to the band's most avid fans in the late '60s; a seedbed for endlessly perfervid speculation. William Bradley: Lost In Lost
- He adopted one medium after another, fascinated at first by new formal possibilities and soon distracted into perfervid polemic.