ardency

== English == === Noun === ardency (countable and uncountable, plural ardencies) The quality of being ardent. Intensity of feelings. Synonym: passion Intensity of devotion. Synonyms: eagerness, zeal 1548, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached on 22 March, 1548 in 27 Sermons, London: John Day, 1562, p. 46,[5] 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. ,[6] This, as we have earnestly desired in our former Letters, so now again with the greatest ardency and importunity we request of your Majesty. Intensity of heat or burning. Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, fieriness, fury, vehemence 1596, Francis Sabie, “David and Beersheba” Adams Complaint, London: Richard Johnes,[8] Field-tilling Swains driue home their toiling teams, Out-wearied with ardencie of heat: Intensity of light. Synonyms: brightness, brilliance, dazzle, luminosity, lustre, radiance ==== Synonyms ==== ardour === Anagrams === dancery