(n.) Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
(n.) Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.
(n.) Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The symptoms pain, ardor, itching and paresthesia were evaluated asking to patients.
(2) It is suggested that this syndrome be referred to as "athymhormia syndrome" (from the Greek roots thumos: mood and horme: ardor, spirit, élan), a term coined by Dide and Guiraud to define the behavior of some schizophrenics, ascribed by these authors to a disruption of the so-called "hormothymic system" that they proposed to locate to subcortical brain structures.
(3) Results showed a rapid relief from pain (p less than 0.05), ardor (p less than 0.01) and paresthesia (p less than 0.001) and also accelerated healing of vesicles in patients treated with interferon.
(4) The ardor of Paul’s hardcore supporters remained.
(5) Local tolerance was very good, but burning was reported by 1 patient, burning and itching by 1, and ardor and irritation by one.
Elan
Definition:
(b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(2) You've shown "elan, dedication, skill and customary energy" while "producing a terrific newspaper and keeping the staff motivated and happy".
(3) Joey Barton tweeted with customary elan, "Go on the birds", and for the next 20 minutes GB peppered the Brazilian goal.
(4) He loaned me a Pure Elan DX40, a low-end mains-powered table-top model.
(5) Susan Elan Jones resigned as shadow Wales office minister.
(6) Because SB 1062 is explicitly intended to counteract last year's ruling of Elane Photography in New Mexico , in which Elaine Huguenin, a photographer, turned down a request from a lesbian couple to document their commitment ceremony because same-sex unions were against her religion.
(7) His tone at that moment was serious but there was much more to revel in; Southampton won 12 of their final 18 Premier League games and here, eventually picking off a much-changed but willing Crystal Palace , was further evidence of the elan that might have yielded even greater reward had an awkward early winter spell not given them ground to make up.
(8) 1.29pm GMT Labour's Susan Elan Jones asks if the increased fines for breaches of the national minimum wage laws will be in place by 1 January.
(9) Stout became a non-executive director of another London-listed pharmaceutical company, Shire, and Ingram is chairman of the biotechnology firm Elan.
(10) To lose the way she did, with quiet elan and sustained skill under intense pressure, leaving every sweat-drop of effort on court during two and a quarter hours against possibly the best player in the history of the women’s game – such a British defeat – was a victory in itself.
(11) Last year, aged 85, with provocatively typical elan, he suggested that a neutron bomb might prove a useful resolution of the situation in Afghanistan.
(12) Cary Grant himself could not have pulled off that bacon butty with elan.
(13) To my ears, DAB sounds worse than FM, even on the Elan, but my wife either didn't notice or didn't care whether I'd secretly switched the setting to FM.
(14) Should City’s fears about Kompany be confirmed, such attacking elan may be required.
(15) Kelner also admitted that Alton had edited the paper "throughout one of the most difficult periods of its history and has done so with elan, dedication, skill and his customary energy".
(16) Kelner added: "Roger has edited the Independent throughout one of the most difficult periods in its history and has done so with elan, dedication, skill and his customary energy.
(17) At one of the earliest debates, Carly confronted Donald Trump, a man who in his characteristic understatement said of her, ‘look at that face’ and every one of us remembers the grace, the class, the elan with which Carly responded.
(18) For all the claims of his detractors that Stewart is the epitome of East Coast elitism, there is more self-deprecating New Jersey grit here than arrogant Manhattan elan.
(19) Her conduct after the attack, bringing together this concert and hosting it with such elan, further underscores her maturity.
(20) I’m obviously pleased the UMP can now close the scars of the previous [leadership] election.” Later he added: “It’s now up to him to give the UMP the elan it needs and for that he will have to unify.