adjective
definition
Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
definition
Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
definition
Glowing, burning, very hot.
Examples of fervent in a Sentence
He was a fervent football supporter of the NFL.
He was fervent in spirit serving the Lord.
He was a fervent nationalist.
They were fervent of all folk musicians in Romania.
I raise fervent prayers to Heaven that the Almighty may exalt the race of the just, and mercifully fulfill the desires of Your Majesty.
He was a fervent admirer of Milton.
As the first fervent belief in the divine right of kings faded, however, a new basis had to be discovered for a relation between the spiritual and temporal powers against which Rome had never ceased to protest.
Whenever the people assembled for worship, fervent prayer was offered up to God in their behalf.
Fervent believers are used to humor being directed at religion.
It was the fervent wish of the Somali people.
He once more tried to show himself a fervent Royalist and was made a peer in 1827.
He would help fervent souls attain perfection.
A fervent Roman Catholic, he devoted himself to advocating a patriarch type of Christian Socialism.
His patriotism is fervent, but narrow and exclusive.
He was moderately humorous in School of Rock, because he was so fervent.
But the idea of liberation continued to grow, and about 1780 the Society of Friends (`ETaepia Twv 4 c uK'v) was founded at Bucharest by the fervent patriot and poet, Constantinos Rhigas (q.v.).
The sober lists of names with which it opens; the account of the embassy, so business-like in its estimates of costs and terms, and suddenly breaking into a fervent description of how the six deputies, "prostrating themselves on the earth and weeping warm tears, begged the doge and people of Venice to have pity on Jerusalem"; the story immediately following, how the young count Thibault of Champagne, raising himself from a sickbed in his joy at the successful return of his ambassadors, "leva sus et chevaucha, et laz!
In 1831 he was appointed vicar at Kirchenlarnitz, where his fervent evangelical preaching attracted large congregations and puzzled the ecclesiastical authorities.
There is indeed no reason to suppose that either Ronsard or Du Bellay was a fervent admirer of Rabelais, for they belonged to a very different literary school; but there is absolutely no evidence of any enmity between them, and Du Bellay actually refers to Rabelais with admiration.
The severe training through which he had passed had given him such an experimental knowledge of all the modes of religious melancholy as he could never have gathered from books; and his vigorous genius, animated by a fervent spirit of devotion, enabled him not only to exercise a great influence over the vulgar, but even to extort the half-contemptuous admiration of scholars.
Had the refugees known their eventual destination, their prayers on Friday afternoon would have been especially fervent.
The magazine I then edited, New Society, was one of the fervent advocates of change.
Today as sisters with an active apostolate, we perpetuate this tradition by maintaining a fervent life in common.
She described him as " fervent, tho not intemperate " .
As in the past, a fervent belief in supernatural nirvana is a good excuse to avoid doing anything practical about mundane earthly problems.
Henry was a forceful and energetic character, a fervent and zealous reformer in the mold of Bernard.
Essenes had very strict rules against breaking the sabbath which they observed with fervent rigor.
Their fervent political aspirations could not be concealed, and from the beginning of the Revolution they threw in their lot with the party of advance.
It is this intrinsic power of fervent invocation and worship which found an early expression in the term brahma; and its independent existence as an active moral principle in shaping the destinies of man became recognized in the Vedic pantheon in the conception of a god Brihaspati or Brahmanaspati, " lord of prayer or devotion," the divine priest and the guardian of the pious worshipper.
He was a fervent Lutheran of the Pietist type; he believed in Spener's "ecclesiola" conception; and now he tried to apply the conception to the Moravian refugees.
The work is more practical than theological; and its quaint fancy, graphic and pointed style, and its fervent religious tone render it still popular with some readers.
But the fervent patriotism, elevated style, and glowing diction of Berzsenyi soon caused him to be recognized as a truly national bard.
Herein the king's " most humble subjects daily orators, and bedesmen " of the clergy of England, in view of his goodness and fervent Christian zeal and his learning far exceeding that of all other kings that they have read of, agree never to assemble in convocation except at the king's summons, and to enact and, promulgate no constitution or ordinances except they receive the royal assent and authority.
The homely terseness of his style, his abounding humour - rough, cheery and playful, but irresistible in its simplicity, and occasionally displaying sudden and dangerous barbs of satire - his avoidance of dogmatic subtleties, his noble advocacy of practical righteousness, his bold and open denunciation of the oppression practised by the powerful, his scathing diatribes against ecclesiastical hypocrisy, the transparent honesty of his fervent zeal, tempered by sagacious moderation - these are the qualities which not only rendered his influence so paramount in his lifetime, but have transmitted his memory to posterity as perhaps that of the one among his contemporaries most worthy of our interest and admiration.
It is averred that he never handled a brush without fervent prayer and he wept when he painted a Crucifixion.
His speeches were characterized by skill of statement, ingenious grouping of facts, fervent diction, and ardent patriotism; sometimes by biting sarcasm, but also by superficial research, half-knowledge and an unwillingness to reason a proposition to its logical results.
The subject of natural history was treated, not from the point of view of mere science, nor from that of sentiment, nor of anecdote nor of gossip, but from that of the author's fervent democratic pantheism, and the result, though, as was to be expected, unequal, was often excellent.
The great men of his time - Conde, Turenne, the marechal de Grammont, the knight-errant duc de Guise - were his fervent admirers.
Accordingly, he was ready to meet the needs of his day to an extent and in a manner which even the versatile Jesuits, who much desired to enlist him in their company, did not rival; and, though an Italian priest and head of a new religious order, his genius was entirely unmonastic and unmedieval; he was the active promoter of vernacular services, frequent and popular preaching, unconventional prayer, and unsystematized, albeit fervent, private devotion.
As well as his enthusiasm for modern guitar sonorities, Julian Bream is renowned for his fervent advocacy of the Elizabethan lute.
In real life, many men, despite their fervent love for their sweethearts, don't know exactly how to pop the big question.
Astrological dates are another option for those who are fervent believers in this practice.
Caleb Saleeby, for example, was a fervent advocate of nudism, heliotherapy, and eugenics (he was Chairman of the National Birthrate Commission and author of a number of books on eugenics).
It has fervent fans as well as many who dislike its alarmist style.
One of her fervent fans was so excited at the prospect of new Jessica Alba bikini shots, he posted a series of pre-baby bikini pictures and invited people to vote on their favorite.
They were vivid, bold and astonishing - and inspired a lot of fervent copiers.
When the subject of your fervent crush rejects you, it can seem to take all the pleasure out of everyday life.
Every year, a few celebrities spark fervent interest with their whirlwind romances.
Daniel Koren and his company are fervent supporters of the Kimberley Process and other initiatives designed to eliminate the trade of conflict and blood diamonds.
He would help lukewarm souls become fervent.