All 4 Uses
fervent
in
Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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- "It means you're a fervent girl," Rahel said.†
p. 169.8 *
- She looked around for her Italian friend—her fellow fervent striker—but Bella had tactfully slipped away, to let the sisters talk by themselves.†
p. 187.3
- In her mind, she held the view of the dead horse, the ragamuffins and the seepy-eyed girl alongside her memories of seeing the shirtwaist strikers calling fervently for justice, seeing her dozens of dresses strewn across the floor the day she'd offered one to Bella, and seeing an image of herself, lying in bed.†
p. 215.1fervently = with intense emotion or passionate belief
- Jane smiled with fondness for her fervent friend as Charles Livingston nodded and reluctantly moved away.†
p. 254.5
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.