Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The heat of fever; a degree of bodily heat characteristic or indicative of fever. On some Fahrenheit thermometers fever-heat is marked at 112°.
- noun Hence A feverish degree of excitement or excitation: as, the enthusiasm rose to fever-heat.
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Examples
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When the youngest Princess saw him thus distracted for love and longing for passion and the fever-heat of desire, she went in to her sisterhood weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, and shedding copious tears threw herself upon them, kissed their feet and besought them to devise some device for bringing Hasan to the
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You will be drawn into the fray by party spirit now still at fever-heat; though the fever, which spent itself in violence in
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Upon this new vision of threatened possibilities followed one of those paroxysms of thought at fever-heat which consume whole years of life.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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But if you wish also to see a State at fever-heat, I have no objection.
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You may imagine that my curiosity ran to fever-heat.
Prester John 2005
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Wallace later recalled the “fever-heat of expectation” he felt.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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As I had never seen a case in which fever-heat continued so long after death, I delayed the funeral until unmistakable symptoms of dissolution occurred.
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Wallace later recalled the “fever-heat of expectation” he felt.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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The fever-heat throbbed again in her blood, and flushed fiercely in her cheeks.
Armadale 2003
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But, if depressed for the moment, on reaching "the Moorings" the thermometer of their spirits jumped suddenly to fever-heat.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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