ardency
- a word derived from ardent.
Example Sentences
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We might have been able to move past the language barrier if Mr. Hernández and Ms. Aikens conveyed the powerful emotion of their words with the requisite ardency.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Teenagers can be cynical or anxious, they can be wry, but they also have natural belief in a better world, they are wired for ardency.
From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2020
Jackson’s most passionate defenders — a group known for its ardency — went to war, immediately demanding that Ms. Nottage, a two-time Pulitzer winner and one of America’s most respected dramatists, be fired.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2019
One: He loved a woman, with a great, unslakable ardency, named Fanny Brawne.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2019
The ardency of my passion made me incapable of uttering more; and I saw my lover astonished and reformed by my behaviour: when rushed in Sempronia.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
