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fervour

UK/ˈfɜːvə/US/ˈfɝ.vɚ/
nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,721 of 15,258neutral

Fervour is passionate intensity of feeling. Religious fervour, patriotic fervour, speak with fervour.

It describes crowds and causes more than any private feeling. Americans spell it fervor, and both come from a Latin word meaning to boil.

Definitions of fervour

  1. 1nounfervourPassionate intensity of feeling.C1

    “The fervour of the first months lasted about a year.”

fervour is a feeling.

Also accepted in games: fervor

Where it comes from

by surface analysis, ferv- + -our.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

fervour in the wild

  • In the beginning, the French armies were characterised by their revolutionary fervour, their poor equipment and their great numbers.

    French Revolutionary Army

  • Ireland and France are shown as linked through their revolutionary fervour.

    Ormond (novel)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.