ardour

IPA: ˈɑrdɔr

Examples of "ardour" in Sentences

I’ve let her try, but her ardour is somewhat disconcerting.
It is possible, my friend, that your ardour is a little compromising.
Our troops, too, had all the ardour which is added even to the boldest by the assurance of victory.
Their ardour was a moral ardour, and the lightest breath of scandal never rested upon them, or upon any phase of Transcendentalism.
All this he expressed with that ardour, which is congenial to the simplicity of truth; and with that enthusiasm, which in all instances accompanies recent conviction.
The seeds of my ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the "Aeneid," mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. '
Philanthropic ardour, which is generally the characteristic mark of all the members of the assotiation, that you yet sympathise with us, in our adversity, and rejoice in our prosperity.
In the mean time, I have been indulging a hope, which at moments has appeared almost a certainty, that Clifton, by our mutual efforts, shall acquire all this true ardour, which is so lovely in Frank.
In human love, as St. Thomas teaches (I: 27: 3), even though the object be external to us, yet the immanent act of love arouses in the soul a state of ardour which is, as it were, an impression of the thing loved.