Intensity or great warmth of feeling; fervour, ardour, animation, vehemence, eagerness, excitement, passion, rage.

Ardour in battle; (more widely) intense passion or desire. Obsolete.

Warmth or glow of feeling, passion, vehemence, intense zeal; an instance of the same.

figurative. Heat of passion or desire, vehemence, ardent desire; warmth of emotion, zeal, fervour, eagerness, enthusiasm. Const. for. (The…

the elevated temperature of the body occurring in fever; an instance of this; frequently figurative.

figurative. The intensity of passion; the state of being inflamed with grief, rage, desire, etc. Also in compounds: see heart-burning, n.

figurative (chiefly poetic). A burning or passionate feeling, esp. of love. Now rare.

figurative. Warmth of the emotions, intensity of feeling or desire, fervency.

Ardour, eagerness, vigour, zeal; also an instance of the same; = fervour, n. 2.

Vapour heated to the point of combustion; ignited gas. Also, †flame of fire. figurative (see also 6.)

figurative. Warmth of feeling or desire; intense eagerness, zeal, fervency, ardour.

figurative. ‘Heat of mind’, intensity of feeling or desire, warmth of devotion, zeal, ardour, eagerness; †an instance of the same.

As a personal quality: ardour of temperament; zeal, fervour, enthusiasm, spirit.

figurative and transferred. Fever; burning passion, ardour, zeal, heat, glow.

The action of inflaming mentally, of firing the mind, passions, senses, etc. (in quot. 1597 at sense 2b with liquor); the condition of being so…

An excited or fervent state of the feelings; strength or glow of feeling; fervent or vehement character (of an expression, welcome, salute, etc.)…

figurative.

figurative. The state of becoming or being ‘inflamed’ with anger or other strong feeling; ardency, fervour.

the state or quality of being fervid.

Warmth, fervency.

Warmth of feeling or passion; ardour.

figurative. Something likened in intensity to white heat; esp. a state of intense or extreme emotion.

An emotional quality which inspires and sustains impassioned eloquence; also, the fervour of emotion characteristic of gatherings of Welsh people.