vehemency
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After this, he inveighed for some time against bailiffs, and then crying with vehemency to God to receive his spirit, he gave up the ghost on the 4th of January, 1724-5.
From Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences by Hayward, Arthur L.
It is true, the vehemency of affection will sometimes cause the extension of the voice; but yet it may cry as loud to heaven when it is kept within.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
No doubt many of the Galatians were taken back with the vehemency of the Apostle.
From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Graebner, Theodore
You know the vehemency of Mr. Knox’s spirit which cannot be bridled, and yet doth utter sometimes such sentences as cannot easily be digested by a weak stomach.
From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew
And in his sermons how piteously he pleads with sinners for their own souls! and how impressive is the undisguised vehemency of his yearning affections!
From Life of Bunyan [Works of the English Puritan divines] by Hamilton, James
