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Definition
showing or feeling intense emotion — typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love
- She was an ardent feeder of people, and often cooked for the salesmen; she hated to see us go to restaurants, where everything, she said, in her impersonator's foreign voice that nothing could interrupt, was so cheap and sticky.Chapter 8 (26% in)
- She was dark, she had black eyes, her throat was ardent but her hands rather powerless.Chapter 15 (37% in)
There are no more uses of "ardent" in The Adventures of Augie March.
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