All 3 Uses
fervent
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Like Jack, Mike absorbed his mother's fervent Catholic faith.†
Chpt 2. *
- By the summer of 1942 the Japanese military had conquered a swath of territory that dwarfed Adolf Hitler's most fervent expansionist dreams.†
Chpt 3.
- I can only imagine the thoughts that must have coursed through my father's mind as he heard these words: my father, age twenty-one, two years out of his adolescence, who had never wished more fervently for anything than he wished for the day he could return to Wisconsin, marry, start a family, and open his funeral home—the quiet dream that had sustained him through the long months in the Pacific, who indeed "gave himself wholly to the United States of America."†
Chpt 16.fervently = 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.