fervour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fer·vour British English, fervor American English /ˈfɜːvə $ ˈfɜːrvər/ noun [uncountable] RREMOTIONALvery strong belief or feeling 热情，热诚 religious fervour 宗教热忱 revolutionary fervour 革命热情 patriotic fervor 爱国热情
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fervour• To them we should respond with greater fervour.• A few businessmen admit privately to admiring his honesty, if not always his fervour.• Do you detect a touch of moral fervour rippling its unsightly way across the normally limpid Weltanschauung of Oliver Russell?• Whether such brave ideas can thrive in the rough tide of freedom alongside economic want and nationalist fervour remains to be seen.• Nowhere else in the world can match the fervour of it.• The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert.• With the fervour of a convert, she determined to spread her new faith in strongly Protestant Wimbledon.fer·vour nounChineseSyllable
Corpus belief very or strong feeling
fervour
fer‧vour
British English, fervor American English /ˈfɜːvə $ ˈfɜːrvər/ noun [uncountable]
religious fervour
revolutionary fervour
patriotic fervor
fer‧vour
British English, fervor American English /ˈfɜːvə $ ˈfɜːrvər/ noun [uncountable] Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: ferveur, from Latin fervor, from fervere 'to boil'
very strong belief or feeling:Language: Old French
Origin: ferveur, from Latin fervor, from fervere 'to boil'
especially