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a feeling of strong enthusiasm or love — usually for a person or a cause- She spoke with great ardor.
- Their ardor cooled and they separated.
- they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor
- And all the while she was shouting his name—"Mackenzie Allen Phillips"—with the ardor of someone seeing a long-lost and deeply-loved relative.William P. Young -- The Shack
- I knew because I heard her play while I stood outside her window, waiting for the secret to her heart to be revealed to me with the same ardor with which I'd...Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
- I should have felt terrible fear at seeing Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardor of battle must have been upon me as well as the rest of them.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- I fought with words and youthful ardor.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- The lady lived; and with redoubled ardor I betook myself to the task of restoration.Edgar Allan Poe -- Ligeia
- Dudorov felt that in her childish ardor she had vowed someday to remove that stigma from her family name.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- This in itself was enough to damp the ardor of my enthusiasm.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Ardor for this mission filled me, and I fervently pledged myself to him.Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
- The very nearness of the fire but cooled our ardor.Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- Leo seesawed between anger and ardor.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- Natasha, with the ardor characteristic of all she did suddenly set to work too.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- A gen'rous ardor boils within my breast, Eager of action, enemy to rest: This urges me to fight, and fires my mind To leave a memorable name behind.Virgil -- The Aeneid
- Clumsiness combined with ardor, ardor with clumsiness they excited Tomas utterly.Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Everyone experiences ardor like yours at one point or another during their lives.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- They evoke no ardor in the male breast.Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
- His visits to Boston became fewer, though he still responded to her letters with the ardor of a lover.Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City
- Perhaps Fowles wants to address, for reasons unknown, the shortcomings of Victorian males in the ardor department.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
ardor = feeling of strong enthusiasm or love
ardor = feeling of strong enthusiasm