ardency

Example Sentences

• "So is their ioyes with fearefull passions mixt, Which doth encrease the ardencie of loue, On the forbidden thinges our eyes are fixt;"
• "The Ardency of my Passion made me incapable of uttering more;"
• "[…] the silver flow Of Hero’s tears, the swoon of Imogen, Fair Pastorella in the bandit’s den, Are things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires."
• "If there had been in Tom Walsingham’s brain a flame or even a flicker of response to Kit’s poetic ardency or the cunning of his learning, then there would have been other linkings and knottings and the joy of discourse in the cool of after love […]"
• "1548, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached on 22 March, 1548 in 27 Sermons, London: John Day, 1562, p. 46, He repayred to God with this prayer, and said nothinge. Yet wyth a great ardency of spirit, he pearsed Gods eares."
• "1650, John Milton, letter to John IV of Portugal dated 27 April, 1650, in Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton, London, 1694, p. , This, as we have earnestly desired in our former Letters, so now again with the greatest ardency and importunity we request of your Majesty."