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
Domesticity, its ardors and rigors, unspoken binds and compacts, was one of Merrill’s major subjects.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
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
The army, no longer uplifted by ardors of conflict with a foreign foe, became conscious of its hunger, its nakedness, and the prospect of returning in rags to pauperized homes.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway
