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Definition of Ardencies
1. ardency [n] - See also: ardency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ardencies
Literary usage of Ardencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"24 Who was the sun to all this galaxy To haughtier ardencies, and ever yearn'd
Towards her as its centre ; till at last A pearl within a many-color'd shell. ..."
2. The Guardian by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1804)
"the affluence of fortune, may, perhaps, make you look upon me, in this talk, like
a poor well-meaning old man, who is past those ardencies in which you at ..."
3. The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1810)
"... make you look upon me in this talk, like a poor well-meaning old man, who is
past those ardencies in which you at present triumph ; but believe me, sir, ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1835)
"Thus I had military ardour added to my other ardencies. Moreover, I had learned
to swim in the New River, and, altogether, began to fancy myself a hero. ..."
5. Men of the Covenant: The Story of the Scottish Church in the Years of the by Alexander Smellie (1904)
"... he would try to hold in check the ardencies of his heart and tongue, and would
deal more exclusively with those rich evangelical themes on which all the ..."
6. Character and Temperament by Joseph Jastrow (1921)
"The loves of men, as well as their allegiances to causes and ardencies of pursuit,
are distinctive because man is (really or potentially) a fond parent, ..."
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