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Definition of Perfervid
1. Adjective. Characterized by intense emotion. "A torrid love affair"
Similar to: Passionate
Derivative terms: Fervency, Fervidness, Fieriness, Fire
Definition of Perfervid
1. a. Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.
Definition of Perfervid
1. Adjective. Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perfervid
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfervid
Literary usage of Perfervid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Thomas Edward Brown, Author of 'Fo'e'sle Yarns': Author of 'Fo'c by Thomas Edward Brown (1900)
"... modest than they used to be when Anglicanism was crude and perfervid. They don't
hammer so defiantly at the foes of the Church as they did thirty years ..."
2. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"... Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 1994), p.86. Dowling's term 'perfervid friendships' (from Latin ..."
3. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by Ernest Albert ( Baker (1913)
"perfervid : the Career of Ninian Jamieson. 1890 " One of the most original ...
1895 A novel harking back somewhat to the romantic motives of perfervid. [33. ..."
4. The History of Edward the Third (1327-1377) by James Mackinnon (1900)
"Their advice was overborne by the rasher and more perfervid spirits, who had an
overweening confidence in their numbers and were eager to win the glory of ..."
5. Retrospective Reviews: A Literary Log by Richard Le Gallienne (1896)
"In perfervid and Baptist Lake we have the same half-mad central figure, ...
The bee in the bonnet of the hero of perfervid, it will be remembered, ..."
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