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vehemences

vehemences is the plural of vehemence.

Meaning of vehemence

Noun

vehemence (usually uncountable, plural vehemences)

  1. (usually) An intense concentration, force or power.
    • The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.
  2. (usually) A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.
    • His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence.
  3. (usually) Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.
    • I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 8

Questions about vehemences

What is vehemences the plural of?
Vehemences is the plural of vehemence.

Words near vehemences in the dictionary

  1. vegs
  2. vegs out
  3. vegtable
  4. veh
  5. vehemence
  6. vehemences
  7. vehemencies
  8. vehemency
  9. vehement
  10. vehemently
  11. vehementness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vehemences (page history and authors); vehemence (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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