Word Meanings - ARDENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Heat. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.
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- WARMTH
The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement; - ARDENCY
1. Heat. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - PASSIONLESS
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson. - AFFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. - WARMTHLESS
Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge. - AFFECTIONATENESS
The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection. - AFFECTIONATELY
With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly. - PASSIONATE
1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior. - PASSIONARY
A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton. - PASSIONTIDE
The last fortnight of Lent. - EAGERNESS
1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness. - VEHEMENCE
1. The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence. 2. Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions. I . . . tremble at his vehemence of - PASSIONATELY
1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke. - PASSIONATENESS
The state or quality of being passionate. - ARDOR
Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. Syn. -- Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor. (more info) 1. Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. 2. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness. - IMPASSIONABLE
Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion. - MISAFFECTION
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall. - IMPASSIONATE
Strongly affected. Smart. - EMPASSION
To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser. - IMPASSION
To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman. - DISPASSIONED
Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne. - DISAFFECTIONATE
Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount. - EMPASSIONATE
Strongly affected. The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.