Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hotly; with glowing warmth.

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  • adverb In a fervid manner.

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  • adverb with passionate fervor

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  • She began writing about historical events using the "literary approach," researching fervidly and giving readers a "readable story."

    Personal Information for Barbara W. Tuchman Jewish Women's Archive 2010

  • She began writing about historical events using the "literary approach," researching fervidly and giving readers a "readable story."

    Personal Information for Barbara W. Tuchman 2010

  • No doubt some birther somewhere is fervidly developing “proof” that Obama hatched from an egg and thus is not a citizen.

    Would You Buy a Used Kidney From This Man? 2009

  • James Darby is bored by the ennui of country life, fervidly anticipating his return to London.

    Double Debut! 2007

  • Three nights later, a fervidly religious abolitionist named John Brown led six cohorts, including four of his sons, to Pottawatomie Creek, where they hacked to death with broadswords five Southerners.

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • Three nights later, a fervidly religious abolitionist named John Brown led six cohorts, including four of his sons, to Pottawatomie Creek, where they hacked to death with broadswords five Southerners.

    Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008

  • For it is the the youth of Americawho arenow overwhelmingly registering Democratic, fervidly supporting Obama's promise of change and leaving the Republican party in theweakened and tired hands of theold Republican guard~ who can't recruit and raise money like they used to do.

    BUSH'S LEGACY WILL SINK REPUBLICANS THIS FALL 2008

  • And I find it rather ironic that Wall Street is so fervidly lambasting the Fed.

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  • A San Antonio human rights lawyer and former state legislator who wrote a fervidly liberal newspaper column almost until the day he died in 2003 at 82, Maury Maverick Jr. considered himself a zealot for freedom.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Brand of Politician: To a True Maverick, It's an Earned Label 2008

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