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vehemency

vehemency noun: vehemence.

Noun

vehemency (countable and uncountable, plural vehemencies)

  1. (archaic) Vehemence.
    • Preachers know that the emotion which surpriseth them whilst they are in their earnest speech doth animate them towards belief, and that being angrie we more violently give our selves to defend our proposition, emprint it in our selves, and embrace the same with more vehemencie and approbation than...1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • The truth of my Third Accuſation is confeſt, but the guilt, not acknovvledged; ſince that vvhich excites men to endleſs bavvlings, and altercations; Schiſms, Hereſies and Rebellions, by the vehemencies of Diſpute, is it ſeems vvith our Author no more noxious and criminal, then the Sun that ſtirrs...1665, Joseph Glanvill, “Scire/i tuum nihil est: Or, The Authors Defence of the Vanity of Dogmatizing; against the Exceptions of the Learned Tho. Albius [i.e., Thomas White] in His Late Sciri”, in...

Forms of vehemency

pluralvehemencies

Origin of vehemency

Borrowed from Latin vehementia.

Questions about vehemency

What does vehemency mean?
Vehemency means vehemence.
What part of speech is vehemency?
Vehemency is a noun.
What is the plural of vehemency?
The plural of vehemency is vehemencies.

Words near vehemency in the dictionary

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

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