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fervour

fervour noun: commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.

Noun

fervour (countable and uncountable, plural fervours)

  1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.
    • The early Americans, inheriting the Hebraist fervour of the English Puritans, had enjoyed a Great Awakening of religious joy.2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 404

fervour meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

fervour in Tamil

தீவிர ஆர்வம், வெறி, உணர்ச்சிவேகம், உற்சாகம், ஊக்கம், ஊக்கப்பாடு

fervour in Urdu

آنچ, گرمی, حرارت, جوش, ولولہ

fervour in Malayalam

വെമ്പൽ, വേവലാതി, തൈഷ്ണ്യം, ഉഗ്രാവേശം

fervour in Kannada

ಬೇಗೆ, ಬಿಸಿ, ಉಕ್ಕುವ ಹುರುಪು

Examples of fervour in a sentence

  • The fervour of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.
  • Lucia rivalled these cordialities with equal fervour and about as much sincerity.
  • Firstly there was the desire to add colour, mystical fervour, to the restrained, matter-of-fact Roman rite.

All 11 example sentences with fervour

Forms of fervour

pluralfervours

Origin of fervour

By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -our (“abstract noun suffix”).

Words formed from fervour

Questions about fervour

What does fervour mean?
Fervour means commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of fervor.
What is fervour in Tamil?
Fervour in Tamil is தீவிர ஆர்வம், வெறி, உணர்ச்சிவேகம். See Fervour meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fervour?
Fervour is a noun.
What is the plural of fervour?
The plural of fervour is fervours.

Words near fervour in the dictionary

  1. fervorent
  2. fervorless
  3. fervorlessness
  4. fervorous
  5. fervors
  6. fervour
  7. fervourless
  8. fervourlessness
  9. fervourous
  10. fervours
  11. Ferwerderadiel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fervour (page history and authors); fervour (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fervour (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fervour (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fervour (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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