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vehemence

[vee-uh-muhns] / ˈvi ə məns /


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Vehemence, Authenticity and a prodigal use of adjectives usually determine the winner, who is chosen by audience applause.

From Time Magazine Archive

They mutually urged that the present Vehemence of their Passions, was a Pledge of its unalterable Permanency.

From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de

The poor thing sighed, curtisied, and with a Blessing, expressed with the utmost Vehemence, turned from me.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

As the matter of Worship is now managed, in Dissenting Congregations, you find insignificant Words and Phrases raised by a lively Vehemence; in our own Churches, the most exalted Sense depreciated, by a dispassionate Indolence.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Carolina in a late Speech to his Assembly inveighs against them with the Vehemence of Luther.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo




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