9 July 2017
ardor
[ahr-der]
noun
1. great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion:
She spoke persuasively and with ardor.
2. intense devotion, eagerness, or enthusiasm; zeal:
his well-known ardor for Chinese art.
3. burning heat.
Also, especially British, ardour.
Origin of ardor
Middle English
1350-1400; Middle English; Latin, equivalent to ārd(ēre) to burn + -or -or1; replacing Middle English ardure; Old French ardur; Latin, as above; 17th century ardour < Anglo-French; Latin, as above
Synonyms
1. fervency, spirit, earnestness, intensity.
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Examples from the Web for ardor Expand
Contemporary Examples
But Jack Scott came in and entered into the “game,” as he called it, with ardour.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show
Robert W. Chambers
February 19, 2014
Historical Examples
In the ardour of the chase the dogs soon ran out of sight, pursuing their quarry towards the shore at Sligachan.
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. I, No. VI, April 1886
Various
The small boys on the bench had had leisure to abate their ardour by this time.
The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic’s
Talbot Baines Reed
She had loved Sir Alexander with all the ardour of a first youthful attachment
The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I
Susanna Moodie
But inwardly all the ardour of his mood collapsed at the touch of her.
Robert Elsmere
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Gurney applied his steam-jet to other purposes than propelling locomotives and exciting the ardour of furnaces in ironworks.
Cornish Characters
S. Baring-Gould
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On this day
9 July 1941 – British military cryptologists break the Enigma code which the German Army was using for encrypting messages used for directing ground to air operations. However, a group of Polish cryptologists claim to have assisted in the cracking of Enigma and have been campaigning for recognition of their part in the break-through.
9 July 1946 – birth of Ronald Belford ‘Bon’ Scott, Scottish-born Australian rock musician. Most famous as the lead-singer of legendary hard rock band, AC/DC. Scott died on 19 February 1980, after choking on his own vomit following a heavy drinking session.
9 July 1982 – In the early hours of the morning, 30 year old Irishman, Michael Fagan breaks into Buckhingham Palace and makes his way to Queen Elizabeth II’s bedroom. Reports at the time, claimed that he spent 10 minutes in there talking with the Queen before being arrested, however, Fagan later claimed that the Queen immediately fled the bedroom and summoned security. The incident was the biggest royal security breach of the 20th century.
9 July 2004 – A US Senate Intelligence Committee finds that the CIA misrepresented the threat posed by Iraq, which was used by President George W. Bush in order to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion by the ‘Coalition of the Willing’.