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perfervid

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9 lettersPronunciation /pəːˈfəːvɪd/Part of speech adjectiveSorted deefiprrvStarts with PEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. characterized by intense emotion

Word origin

From Late Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- + fervidus. By surface analysis, per- + fervid; compare pellucid.

Used in a sentence

  • In this case he saw himself sitting beside the breathing slender figure of Pia like someone in an old engraving – a beastly old Rembrandt exhaling the perfervid gloom of Protestantism and a diet of turnips.
  • Ah threw mahself down the porch steps and fell to mah knees in the middle of the yard, wringing mah hands and beating at the sky and wailing and reeling in the red dust and petitioning the almighty with perfervid prayer.
  • A clown, Grantley Dixon, a perfervid parrot, with his militant slogans and second-hand attitudes: like all coffee-house radicals a screaming snob at heart.

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