Both Uses of
fervent
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Dounia did not sleep all night before she made up her mind, and, thinking that I was asleep, she got out of bed and was walking up and down the room all night; at last she knelt down before the ikon and prayed long and fervently and in the morning she told me that she had decided.†
Chpt 1.3 *fervently = with intense emotion or passionate belief
- At the final leave-taking he smiled strangely at his sister's and Razumihin's fervent anticipations of their happy future together when he should come out of prison.†
Chpt Epil.
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, fervent may refer to something that is especially hot or that glows from heat.