Perfervid definition

pər-fûrvĭd
Extremely or extravagantly eager; impassioned or zealous.
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Extremely fervid; ardent.
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Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.
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Origin of perfervid

  • From Late Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- + fervidus.

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Perfervid Sentence Examples

  • Merimee was tried for a week, but the cool cynic and the perfervid apostle of women's rights proved mutually repulsive.

  • All the poet and all the man spoke out and stood evident in the perfervid patriotism, the filial devotion, the fatherly tenderness, the indignation and the pity, which here find alternate expression in passionate and familiar and majestic song.

  • He had as colleague Franz Gomarus, a strong supralapsarian, perfervid, irrepressible; and their collisions, personal, official, political, tended to develop and define their respective positions.

  • This was the cemetery where was buried Francois de Paris, a young Jansenist deacon of singularly holy life, and a perfervid opponent of the Unigenitus.

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