ADJECTIVE
  1. 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
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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.
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