Word Meanings - ARDENCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Heat. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.

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• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• ARDENCY
  1. Heat. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• AFFECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
• WARMTHLESS
  Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge.
• AFFECTIONATENESS
  The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.
• AFFECTIONATELY
  With affection; lovingly; fondly; tenderly; kindly.
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• PASSIONTIDE
  The last fortnight of Lent.
• EAGERNESS
  1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness.
• VEHEMENCE
  1. The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence. 2. Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions. I . . . tremble at his vehemence of
• PASSIONATELY
  1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
• PASSIONATENESS
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• ARDOR
  Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. Syn. -- Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor. (more info) 1. Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays. 2. Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSION
  To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
• IMPASSION
  To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.
• DISPASSIONED
  Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne.
• DISAFFECTIONATE
  Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. Blount.
• EMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.