ardency

The quality of being ardent.

So is their ioyes with fearefull passions mixt, Which doth encrease the ardencie of loue, On the forbidden thinges our eyes are fixt;

The Ardency of my Passion made me incapable of uttering more;

The quality of being ardent.

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

1650, John Milton, letter to John IV of Portugal dated 27 April, 1650, in Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton, London, 1694, p. , This, as we have earnestly desired in our former Letters, so now again with the greatest ardency and importunity we request of your Majesty.

The quality of being ardent.

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

The use of clysters is so manifest, so obvious (especially during the ardency of the fever) that I have no further occasion to insist on their being serviceable;

The quality of being ardent.

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;

I can shut my eyes now and see that incomparable sunrise; I can see again that vision of mountains filling half the sky with their unimaginable ardency, and I think that this world never presented nobler sight.