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/vˈiəmənt/
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[ US /ˈviəmənt, vəˈhimənt/ ]
[ US /ˈviəmənt, vəˈhimənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by great force or energy
a vehement defense
vehement clapping
vehement deluges of rain -
marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
vehement dislike
violent passions
in a tearing rage
fierce loyalty
How To Use vehement In A Sentence
- The ayatollah broke with Iran's clerical leadership and became a vehement critic, denouncing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and calling the postelection crackdown the work of a dictatorship. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- Despite vehement opposition from his family, he quit school and became an actor.
- These verbs mean to reprimand or criticize angrily or vehemently.
- Now that's change for a man who in the past has been vehemently antitechnology. The Sun
- Dace claimed it was in the hope of catching sight of his brother --- a charge Mikel vehemently denied. TREASON KEEP
- Because this being all our hope, against this point did the devil make a vehement stand, and at one time he was wholly subverting it, at another his word was that it was "past already;" which also Paul writing to Timothy called a gangrene, I mean, this wicked doctrine, and those that brought it in he branded, saying, NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
- He was at that time "a vehement anti-ministerialist," but, after the invasion of Switzerland, a more vehement anti-Gallican, and still more intensely an anti-Jacobin: The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
- Despite vehement opposition from his family, he quit school and became an actor.
- With vehement signs and maffling cries he showed us he was come out from Hayil to seek me.
- What a dreary mourning it is to dwell upon those vehement protests of dead affection! Vanity Fair