Both Uses of
fervid
in
The Mill on the Floss
- Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,—why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- He laid his plan and calculated all his moves with the fervid deliberation of a chess-player in the days of his first ardor, and was amazed himself at his sudden genius as a tactician.†
Chpt 6.8
Definition:
intensely passionate
or more rarely:
extremely hot
or more rarely:
extremely hot