feverous

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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is taking home a gold medal in the Paris Olympic Games, defeating China’s Yang Liu in the welterweight category after feverous attacks on her gender.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2024

It was a 6-on-4 for the Rangers, whose feverous push to force overtime wouldn’t be denied.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2012

Nay, but her silken sash to me Were more than all morality, Had not the old, sweet, feverous ill Left me the master of my will!

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

A meek and shy quietist, his intellectual powers were never stimulated into feverous energy by crowds of proselytes, or by the ambition of proselyting.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

O, I do fear thy courage, Claudio; and I quake Lest thou a feverous life should'st entertain, And six or seven winters more respect Than a perpetual honor.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.