What's the difference between fervid and monkery?

Fervid


Definition:

  • (a.) Very hot; burning; boiling.
  • (a.) Ardent; vehement; zealous.

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  • (1) We also seem to be heading increasingly towards a directors’ theatre, where the ability to rework standard classics takes precedence over new writing: look at the fervid excitement created by current productions of The Crucible and A Streetcar Named Desire .
  • (2) Kitson inspires fervid devotion in his fans, however, and when I posted my review , they took it as a personal affront.
  • (3) There, amid the fervid rhetoric, was their rationale.
  • (4) Good” v “bad” graffiti might continue to be disputed between fervid councillors, but Eine says the public have moved on.
  • (5) An opportunity to defeat the government that Labour so fervidly claim to oppose, yet they abstained and allowed the government to defeat us.
  • (6) Sometimes they choose stories as a reaction to current events: 2011's The Ides of March was a response to America's fervid political climate; 2006's Good Night and Good Luck was "a reaction to what was going on with the war, and George speaking out about the war and getting hammered," Heslov says.

Monkery


Definition:

  • (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
  • (n.) A collective body of monks.

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