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  • "So what do you see when I do this?" he'd ask her, in their earliest, most ardent days.†  (source)
  • Several townspeople were standing with the players—mothers and dads and ardent baseball fans.†  (source)
  • His accent is very different from Frau Elena's, and yet his voice is so ardent, so hypnotizing, that Werner finds he can understand every word.†  (source)
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  • At the space-age, glassed-in office of the storage facility, I was the only customer; and though I'd prepared a cover story (ardent camper; neat-freak mom) the men at the desk seemed completely uninterested in my large, well-labeled sporting goods bag with the tag of the pup tent dangling artfully outside.†  (source)
    ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
  • I am very sorry to hear that, so far, Professor Umbridge is encountering very little co-operation from staff as she strives to make those necessary changes within Hogwarts that the Ministry so ardently desires (although she should find this easier from next week — again, see the Daily Prophet tomorrow!)†  (source)
    ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
  • Frederick's voice trembles with ardency.†  (source)
  • Her ardentness was off-putting on a sunny afternoon, and when the open faces of young men caught sight of her they closed down or looked away.†  (source)
    ardentness = the quality of intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • How he felt humanity squeeze his hand, and how he let that hand go — shook himself free of it, even, like a young boy confronted with an overardent admirer.†  (source)
    overardent = showing or feeling excessively intense emotion
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overardent means excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
  • Linna, who had become an ardent Zen Gnostic in the years between, cried and left early.†  (source)
    ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
  • I want to hear your answer—it must be interesting if you're so ardently resisting.†  (source)
    ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
  • She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.†  (source)
  • An ardent city booster I knew from work couldn't wait to confront me.†  (source)
    ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
  • Ruth liked the antagonistic little dogs, who barked ardently as she passed.†  (source)
    ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
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