fervor
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noun
- An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
- A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
- Heat.
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From Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -or (“abstract noun suffix”).
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