- a variation of vehemence.
vehemency
Example Sentences
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Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.—Barton.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
Read with vehemency," he says, "those words 'me,' and 'for me.'
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
All that we can say is, that when we see the mind deeply agitated, and, as it were, carried away by a storm of passion, we also observe that it frequently acts with great vehemency.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
Nor meant I here to speak of it, had it not been that the vehemency of your objection brought it in my way.
From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica
All thought was wholly beaten from my mind by the vehemency of my discomposure.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
