adjective
- hot; burning; glowing
- having or showing great warmth of feeling; intensely devoted or earnest; ardent
Etymology:
ME + OFr & < L fervens (gen. ferventis), prp. of fervere, to glow, boil, rage < IE *bhreu-, to boil up < base *bher-, to boil > brew, burn
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