Fer·vent a.
1. Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer.
The elements shall melt with fervent heat. --2 Pet. iii. 10.
2. Warm in feeling; ardent in temperament; earnest; full of fervor; zealous; glowing.
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit. --Rom. iii. 11.
So spake the fervent angel. --Milton.
A fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. --Macaulay.
-- Fer*vent*ly, adv. -- Fer*vent*ness, n.
Laboring fervently for you in prayers. --Col. iv. 12.
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fervently
adv : with passionate fervor; "both those for and against are
fervently convinced they speak for the great majority
of the people"; "a fierily opinionated book" [syn: fierily,
fervidly]