What's the difference between ardor and fervor?

Ardor


Definition:

  • (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.

Fervor


Definition:

  • (n.) Heat; excessive warmth.
  • (n.) Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For example, he didn’t think it was Trump’s stance on immigration that was drawing voters with a lot of fervor, it was “Trump’s racist language”.
  • (2) Christie first trumpeted his arrival on the national scene by cancelling, at the height of Tea Party anti-government fervor, the largest public works project anywhere in the United States: a vital new tunnel under the Hudson River 20 years in the making.
  • (3) Harward is said to share Mattis’ view of Iran as a primary security threat, though with less ideological fervor: he spent much of his youth in pre-revolutionary Iran, where his father, also a navy officer, was stationed.
  • (4) A succession of desperate attempts to clear their lines had Mourinho jumping up and down on the touchline with increasing fervor.
  • (5) Nursing has discussed widely and with fervor the level of education required to provide quality nursing care for clients.
  • (6) Their faith unshaken, the Republican nominee’s superfans cheered him with religious fervor and, when he lambasted the media, turned to boo with no less passion.
  • (7) Among the more important, though with situational variations, are the high degree of moralistic and patriotic fervor associated with prohibition efforts, the projection of guilts and fears of the proponents onto alcohol use, and aspects of culture conflict and opposing group interests.
  • (8) But what’s original about his work is the fervor and fearlessness with which it borrows and recombines other genres and styles – pop, rock, jazz, operetta.
  • (9) Nostalgia for a nationalist Catholicism by some and the fervor of others to demonstrate that a break with the past had taken place have been important factors in bioethics legislation.
  • (10) While the rescheduled first day in Tampa was a snoozefest, Tuesday in Charlotte had the sight of Cory Booker banging the podium with fervor, Tammy Duckworth walking on stage with two artificial limbs, mute testimony to her service in Iraq, and former Ohio governor Ted Strickland launching into a barnburner, accusing Mitt Romney of "lying and hiding" his policies and tax returns.
  • (11) Just last week, I ventured to a local drinking establishment, with great hopes for my fellow Americans said to be embracing football with fervor .
  • (12) [Cubans] are not committed to this revolutionary internationalist fervor of the 60s and 70s.
  • (13) The conservative fervor over Benghazi and its various conspiracies carried a rarely discussed thread: the mistaken belief that special-ops can do anything, at any time, to save or kill anyone.
  • (14) The fervor with which the Americans have adopted soccer in the last 20 years , and this World Cup specifically, offers a compelling juxtaposition to Canada – another large developed, rich, industrial nation in the Concacaf zone.
  • (15) Having dealt somewhat extensively with Harris and many of his supporters this week, I can say that I haven't encountered such religious-type fervor and jingoistic and tribalistic self-love ( My Side is superior to Theirs!! )
  • (16) Unfortunately, these conclusions have been sensationalized and exploited with litigious fervor to the point that the practice of pertussis immunization is being questioned in the United States.
  • (17) June 4, 2017 ⭐fervor w measure⭐ (@setalyas) "London should not be cowed" mate the Chicken Cottage by Borough station is already open stop worrying June 4, 2017 The nation is not for reeling One headline in particular provoked British ire, from the New York Times, which stated that “Terrorist attacks in the heart of London leave 6 dead in a nation still reeling” Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) This sort of hyped-up headline does the terrorists' job for them.
  • (18) Barbara Annis, co-author of Work with Me: the 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business and the founding partner of Gender Intelligence Group , a New York firm specializing in gender diversity training, said: “What they [Pao’s critics] are trying to do to Pao is character assassination, and yes, her being a woman and a woman who [previously] filed a discrimination suit against her employer contributes to the insane fervor of which people responded to her decisions as CEO.” Hashtags including #RedditRevolt and #ChairmanPao trended on Twitter this week.
  • (19) The fervor with which abortion opponents have pursued restrictions on mifepristone appears to contrast with the drug’s safety record.
  • (20) But these very technologies--newer and more "mechanistic"--changed interest in the annual checkup into a fervor for "mass screening."