(a.) Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever.
(a.) Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes.
(a.) Warm, applied to the passions and affections; passionate; fervent; zealous; vehement; as, ardent love, feelings, zeal, hope, temper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
(2) Long regarded as the most ardently pro-European party in British politics, the Lib Dems have pledged to do everything they can to campaign for Britain to remain in the EU and hope to win support from voters who regret the result of June’s referendum.
(3) He was as ardent as any Democrat to see the back of George Bush, but was never swept up in Obamania.
(4) Those same countries which are most resistant to immigration are often the most ardent proponents of the free market which has created this situation and the same countries that are profiting out of the opening up of their eastern European neighbours.
(5) For Tories, it's no problem – they ardently want to cut the state back as hard as they dare.
(6) Elizabeth Wallschlager, a Panamanian immigrant and a Catholic, said: “I don’t think the pope said that.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ardent Trump supporter from Kiawah Island, she added: “I think that it’s a misunderstanding.
(7) Even the most ardent Republican supporter must realise that historically the party has tended to boost the wealth of the few rather than the many.
(8) But Trump’s performance seemed to ease the concerns of attendees who represented some of the most ardent cultural warriors in the party, a group that has long been uncomfortable with the party’s nominee, and preferred other candidates like Ted Cruz during the primary.
(9) He must have been one of the few children who noticed that an animating crisis in Mary Poppins was a run on a bank; less surprising is his memory of rats in the streets after the rubbish collectors' strike in the 70s, which engendered an enduring scepticism about the Labour party (though, "like any intelligent teenager" he was briefly an ardent Labour supporter and briefly a Scottish nationalist - "I'm promiscuous that way").
(10) Even the most ardent Kobe apologist cannot deny that he committed an aggressive act of infidelity and made himself look terrible in his initial statements to police, where he lamented not simply paying off his alleged victim.
(11) These ardent conservatives are also challenging the conventional wisdom – and testimony from the US Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, that the US would be at high risk of default once its borrowing authority expires on Thursday.
(12) Belmondo could treat women tenderly (as the priest dealing with an ardent parishioner in Léon Morin, prêtre) and harshly (beating up a treacherous moll in Le Doulos).
(13) Although ardent strides have been made in the realm of diagnosis and follow-up with the advent of ultrasonography, mortality and morbidity have not changed appreciably over the past 20 years.
(14) On one side were the “ardent internationalists”, “comfortable Europhiles” and “engaged metropolitans”, while “strong sceptics” and “EU hostiles” occupied the other pole.
(15) Zlatan’s many ardent supporters, those who are fans as opposed to curious neutral observers, might not like it.
(16) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
(17) Jones told Turnbull that because he had had dinner with Palmer, a trenchant critic of Abbott, “people” were suggesting that “precisely because you have no hope ever of being the leader again – you have got that into your head, no hope ever – that because of that you are happy to chuck a few bombs around that might blow up Abbott a bit, that is what they are saying.” Turnbull replied that it was Jones who was undermining the Abbott government and “doing the work of the Labor party”, a charge not usually levelled at the Sydney announcer who is an ardent supporter of the prime minister.
(18) Not even the most ardent Brexiteer would want to rush into a notification under article 50.
(19) Luckily, many of Prop 187’s and SB 1070’s most ardent supporters are now either eternally vilified ( Governor Pete Wilson ), politically irrelevant ( Governor Jan Brewer ) or in massive legal problems ( Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio ).
(20) Among the list of eminent speakers on the platform at the inaugural meeting in November 1955 – at the Central Methodist hall in Westminster – was the novelist JB Priestley, Lord Pakenham (later Lord Longford, a member of the incoming Labour government in 1964, and a lifelong penal reformer), Gerald Gardiner QC (Labour’s lord chancellor from 1964-70) as Lord Gardiner, a passionate law reformer and ardent abolitionist, and CH Rolph (a prominent writer and a former inspector of police in the City of London).
Devotee
Definition:
(n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sabella was a devotee of 5-3-2 when he led Estudiantes to the title and the Copa Libertadores but the danger of using three central defenders against a lone centre-forward is that, with two spare men, one is left redundant.
(2) For Kaori Kitakata, a devotee since she was introduced to the genre by Korean friends, K-pop is a change from the overtly cute mien cultivated by popular Japanese girlbands such as Morning Musume .
(3) Brompton has fared well from the growing number of devotees.
(4) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
(5) The billionaire founder of Facebook has apologised to the website's 57 million devotees for its handling of a controversial advertising feature which has sparked furious protests about privacy.
(6) She will be sharing it with British devotees for three days from Sunday, when her European tour reaches London's Alexandra Palace.
(7) It was a extraordinary match, New Zealand the devotees of attack, forced to defend for all their worth.
(8) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
(9) Both solar power and hydrogen fuel cells have their devotees, and can certainly lift demonstrator aircraft off the ground – though in both cases the main application seems likely to be powering auxiliary systems rather than aircraft engines.
(10) What miracles, envisioned in the fevered imaginations of so many cultists and devotees, were not made manifest?
(11) The show has plenty of devotees (and people mocking it) on both sides of the pond, but Brits get to see the latest season months ahead of their American counterparts.
(12) Since journalist Tom Mueller revealed how more than 70% of the extra virgin olive oil sold in the world is fake , olive oil devotees have been seeking out authentic, 100% real olive oil.
(13) AC 12 June 1966: Andy Warhol's factory John Heilpern's visit to Andy Warhol's Factory yielded a fascinating portrait of the artist and his circle of devotees.
(14) A mixed crowd of senior citizens and vintage car devotees here for an al fresco auction slurp their tea and ice creams and quietly look on.
(15) Talk to those who devote their lives to the study of violent jihadism, reading Isis’s propaganda and interviewing its devotees, and a different picture emerges.
(16) Two decades after that appointment, Khamenei has become so powerful that the assembly’s role has diminished to a symbolic one with members acting as his devotees, stripped of all their supervisory power even though they are still being elected in public votes.
(17) It would be ironic if China’s Communist leaders turned out to have a better understanding of capitalism’s reflexive interactions among finance, the real economy, and government than western devotees of free markets.
(18) The vehicles made during a ramped-up final year of production in Solihull include tributes to the HUE 166, the original Series I model whose Birmingham area number plate devotees all recognise, with Defenders painted in that original shade of RAF surplus green.
(19) EA’s multiplayer first-person shooter franchise attracts a fanatical group of hardcore devotees, but at the same time, swarms of players find it too exacting and intimidating.
(20) Martins had, like the football fan he is, been at the opening game the night before and his respect for stickers is as wholehearted as that of any devotee.