Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Growing hot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Growing hot.
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- adjective Growing
hot .
Etymologies
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Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere to become boiling hot, inchoate, from fervere. See fervent.
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Examples
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Clinton, who always grunted at intervals, and blew his nose stentoriously when fervescent, was unusually aggressive.
The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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