ardor
noun
great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion.
ardors
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pluralof ardor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Neither he nor manager Dave Roberts care to attribute the dip in production to the ardors of catching nearly every game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023
Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to “La La Land,” his swooning valentine to the movie musical, more closely resembles the film that preceded it, “Whiplash,” in its visceral attention to the rigors and ardors of achieving greatness.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019
The boundless aspirations and ardors of young people are themselves the core of his romanticism.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 16, 2017
I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2011
Guy looked at his note-book and marked how many apostrophes, the impulses to declaim which had seemed to scorch his imagination with bright ardors, had, alas, failed to kindle his uninflammable pencil.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
