fervency

Example Sentences

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Scores of university students on Wednesday marched to the parliamentary chambers in the capital, Kampala, to thank lawmakers for enacting the bill, underscoring the fervency of the bill’s supporters.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2023

"They may not have the numerical advantage that they had 10 or 20 or 30 years ago," he said, "but it appears that what they lack in numbers, they're making up in fervency."

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2021

So she armed herself with facts, not fervency.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2020

Of the characters, Holden wrote, “The Sicilians who discourse in the film, sometimes casually and sometimes in intense personal conversations, tend to speak in cadences that echo the fervency of Italian opera.”

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

He took her hand in his, and pressed it with a fervency, eloquent but silent.

From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet