ardencies

Noun

ardency (countable and uncountable, plural ardencies)

1. Intensity of feelings.
   • So is their ioyes with fearefull passions mixt,
     Which doth encrease the ardencie of loue,
     On the forbidden thinges our eyes are fixt;1597, Robert Parry, Sinetes Passions uppon his Fortunes, London: William Holme, Sonetto 23

   Synonyms:

   passion

2. Intensity of devotion.
   • He repayred to God with this prayer, and said nothinge. Yet wyth a great ardency of spirit, he pearsed Gods eares.1548, Hugh Latimer, sermon preached on 22 March, 1548 in 27 Sermons, London: John Day, 1562, p. 46

   Synonyms:

   eagerness, zeal

3. Intensity of heat or burning.
   • Field-tilling Swains driue home their toiling teams,
     Out-wearied with ardencie of heat:1596, Francis Sabie, “David and Beersheba” Adams Complaint, London: Richard Johnes

   Synonyms:

   ferocity, fierceness, fieriness, fury, vehemence

4. Intensity of light.
   • One could not look a moment, without a weeping of the sight, into the blinding ardency of the western atmosphere, so charged was it with the ceaseless gushing of the crimson glory;1891, William Clark Russell, chapter 7, in Marooned, volume 2, London: Macmillan, page 224

   Synonyms:

   brightness, brilliance, dazzle, luminosity, lustre, radiance