fervency

Example Sentences

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Much later, Corniel’s sister told her that after witnessing the fervency of that prayer, she knew that Corniel was going to eventually make it out on the other side.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

Scores of university students on Wednesday marched to the parliamentary chambers in the capital, Kampala, to thank lawmakers for enacting the bill, underscoring the fervency of the bill’s supporters.

From Washington Times • Jun. 3, 2023

“Hugh! Hugh! STOP!” the people with the flashbulbs scream, with such fervency you’d think they were trying to stop him from stepping in front of a bus.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

The women teachers kept telling me I looked so pretty, and I felt, acutely, how lovely and embarrassing this all was, to be witnessed in the damp fervency of my love for this boy.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2021

He spoke with much fervency, enlarging upon the high importance of the holy communion and exhorting p. 544people to come to it in a fit state of mind. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry