intenseness

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“Hopefully, the energy — or whatever people want to say, the intenseness that I have — may work here,” Collins said.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2011

Many of them, unknowingly, are warm admirers of Lord Chesterfield’s “Advice,” and practise the “airs and graces” before a looking-glass with an intenseness and indefatigability which, no doubt, that great philosopher would fully appreciate.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

His zeal now burned even with an increase of brightness; and no intenseness, no continuance of suffering could allay its ardor, or damp the fervors of his triumphant exultations.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William

This was done; and the fact that it was so, proves the intenseness of the public feeling.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various

The intenseness of that sudden pang of horror deprived her alike of speech and motion during the instant that it lasted.

From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)