fervency

Example Sentences

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We mourn and grieve, we miss those we’ve lost or said goodbye to, and we pursue both love and memory with such fervency that the rest of the world blurs.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2025

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

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

The intensity of his nature, his open-mindedness, frankness, and spiritual sensitiveness, his fervency of aspiration and his outspokenness, made the office of settled pastor and steady routine preacher distasteful to him.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks