All 6 Uses
fervent
in
Jane Eyre
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- "It is well I drew the curtain," thought I; and I wished fervently he might not discover my hiding-place: nor would John Reed have found it out himself; he was not quick either of vision or conception; but Eliza just put her head in at the door, and said at once "She is in the window-seat, to be sure, Jack."†
p. 11.9fervently = with intense emotion or passionate belief
- "Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot.†
p. 31.9
- Now it had been her custom to launch out into fervent admiration of what she called my 'beaute male:' wherein she differed diametrically from you, who told me point-blank, at the second interview, that you did not think me handsome.†
p. 169.5
- I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you,
p. 363.2 *fervent = intense
- Whitcross regained, I followed a road which led from the sun, now fervent and high.†
p. 374.4
- I sincerely, deeply, fervently longed to do what was right; and only that.†
p. 483.1fervently = with intense emotion or passionate belief
Definitions:
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(1)
(fervent) characterized by intense emotion or passionate belief
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, fervent may refer to something that is especially hot or that glows from heat.