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Ardency

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ar·dent  (ärdnt)
adj.
1. Expressing or characterized by warmth of feeling; passionate: an ardent lover.
2. Displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion; fervent: "an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art" Walter Pater.
3.
a. Burning; fiery.
b. Glowing; shining: ardent eyes.
[Middle English ardaunt, from Old French ardant, from Latin rdns, rdent-, present participle of rdre, to burn; see as- in Indo-European roots.]
arden·cy (-dn-s) n.
ardent·ly adv.
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Where earlier authors looked to England and Europe for aesthetic inspiration and cultural validation, writes Powers, Twain provided a "radically new native voice [that was] diametrically the opposite of Jamesian eloquence [and which] radiated, in its very homespun ardency, a new sort of American truth.
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