Both Uses
ardent
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Finding a Voice - One Writer's Beginnings - Chpt 3
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- Annihilating those miles between them—the miles I came along to travel with him, that first time on the train—those miles he knew nearly altogether by heart, he wrote more often than any once a day, and mailed his letters directly onto the mail car—letters that are so ardent, so direct and tender in expression, so urgent, that they seemed to bare, along with his love, the rest of his whole life to me.†
ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- She would have responded to the ardency of their beliefs.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(ardent) showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)