All 6 Uses of

ardent
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce

Over their voices Dollard bassooned attack, booming over bombarding chords: —When love absorbs my ardent soul... Roll of Bensoulbenjamin rolled to the quivery loveshivery roofpanes.†
Chpt 11 *

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a countrystile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature and the injunction upon her in the event of a yearning, ardently and ineffectually entertained, to place her hand against that part of her person which long usage has consecrated as the seat of castigation.†
Chpt 14

ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)

And yonder about that grey urn where the water moves at times in thoughtful irrigation you saw another as fragrant sisterhood, Floey, Atty, Tiny and their darker friend with I know not what of arresting in her pose then, Our Lady of the Cherries, a comely brace of them pendent from an ear, bringing out the foreign warmth of the skin so daintily against the cool ardent fruit.†
Chpt 14

ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)

BEN DOLLARD: (Nakkering castanet bones in his huge padded paws, yodels jovially in base barreltone) When love absorbs my ardent soul.†
Chpt 15

Indubitably in consequence of the reiterated examples of poets in the delirium of the frenzy of attachment or in the abasement of rejection invoking ardent sympathetic constellations or the frigidity of the satellite of their planet.†
Chpt 17

Definition:

showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love