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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

fervourless en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfəːvələs/ (UK)

Etymology

From fervour + -less.

Meanings

  1. Without fervour.
    • The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. 1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush:
    • She had accepted her husband's faith after a fervourless girlhood from a mixture of reasons badly thought out. 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 26:

Forms

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most fervourless Degree=Sup lexicographic
fervorless alternative lexicographic
more fervourless Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

fervourlessness