fervourless
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English
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[edit]- fervorless (US)
Etymology
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[edit]fervourless (comparative more fervourless, superlative most fervourless)
- Without fervour.
- 1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush:
- The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 26:
- She had accepted her husband's faith after a fervourless girlhood from a mixture of reasons badly thought out.