What's the difference between vehemence and vehemency?

Vehemence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.
  • (n.) Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
  • (2) With all the vehemence I could muster, I took a spoonful of the spinach and threw it at the ceiling.
  • (3) On the way back he looks out over the fields and says with sudden vehemence: "Deer: I hate them.
  • (4) The vehemence of Conservative divisions over same-sex marriage were exposed when one Tory MP said it would undermine "normal marriage", another questioned whether polygamy would be legalised next, and a third claimed that European judges will soon force the Church of England to allow same-sex marriages against its will.
  • (5) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
  • (6) For the average climate science denier in the street (and there are a lot of them on some streets), there is often little correlation between the vehemence of their denials and the so-called "facts" at their disposal.
  • (7) To the south are Shia militias who have responded with vehemence and are transforming the frontlines into a sectarian showdown that pays no heed to the state.
  • (8) The taxpayer hasn't lost anything, the business minister insists with some vehemence.
  • (9) And, though it was perhaps unsurprising that Cameron should be unenthusiastic about Juncker’s candidacy, the vehemence of his opposition was extraordinary.
  • (10) Indeed, there seems to be some sort of inverse correlation between the ignorance of the speaker and the vehemence with which they hold their opinion.
  • (11) The vehemence of his attack will antagonise the pensions industry, already angry at Miliband's promise to clamp down on City predators.
  • (12) Militant communists, capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, and unions representing civil servants, the mainstay of the Greek workforce, have already announced strikes for later this week, attacking the prospect of yet more austerity with extreme vitriol and vehemence.
  • (13) In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears – in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in-your-face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists .
  • (14) What distinguished Rivers' work was the vehemence (and the delight) she brought to the task, the quality of the jokes (she was, above all, a great gag woman) – and of course the fact that the last laugh was always on her.
  • (15) So it is with vehemence rather than violence that they dismiss the Falklands' first referendum on sovereignty, due to start on Sunday, which is expected to reinforce at the ballot box what was determined by guns and tanks in 1982: UK rule over the south Atlantic islands and the sea lanes around them.
  • (16) Yet, at the same time, they resist with great vehemence change in the way they do their business.
  • (17) Although sports fans may be a little surprised by the vehemence of Morrissey's reaction, an event that combined corporate sponsorship from McDonald's with the near-constant presence of the royal family was unlikely to win his favour.
  • (18) When she announced her candidacy she criticised the “financial industry” and “multinational corporations” that have “created huge wealth for a few by focusing too much on short-term profit and too little on long-term value, too much on complex trading schemes and stock buy-backs, too little on investments in new businesses, jobs and fair compensation.” She may not share Sanders’s vehemence on the issue.
  • (19) The rising number of interests in the war and the vehemence of the protagonists is, however, making attempts to control Lebanon evermore difficult.
  • (20) Mediated by cognitive variables persons with emphatic perception may develop an association between anxiety and allergic processes with high probability, the reciprocal influence of which can increase with vehemence.

Vehemency


Definition:

  • (n.) Vehemence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But they are usually less accepting of hypocrites and liars, and especially those that challenge the establishment with such vehemence.
  • (2) With all the vehemence I could muster, I took a spoonful of the spinach and threw it at the ceiling.
  • (3) On the way back he looks out over the fields and says with sudden vehemence: "Deer: I hate them.
  • (4) The vehemence of Conservative divisions over same-sex marriage were exposed when one Tory MP said it would undermine "normal marriage", another questioned whether polygamy would be legalised next, and a third claimed that European judges will soon force the Church of England to allow same-sex marriages against its will.
  • (5) It surpassed its rivals in the vehemence and cogency of its opposition to the Iraq invasion.
  • (6) For the average climate science denier in the street (and there are a lot of them on some streets), there is often little correlation between the vehemence of their denials and the so-called "facts" at their disposal.
  • (7) To the south are Shia militias who have responded with vehemence and are transforming the frontlines into a sectarian showdown that pays no heed to the state.
  • (8) The taxpayer hasn't lost anything, the business minister insists with some vehemence.
  • (9) And, though it was perhaps unsurprising that Cameron should be unenthusiastic about Juncker’s candidacy, the vehemence of his opposition was extraordinary.
  • (10) Indeed, there seems to be some sort of inverse correlation between the ignorance of the speaker and the vehemence with which they hold their opinion.
  • (11) The vehemence of his attack will antagonise the pensions industry, already angry at Miliband's promise to clamp down on City predators.
  • (12) Militant communists, capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, and unions representing civil servants, the mainstay of the Greek workforce, have already announced strikes for later this week, attacking the prospect of yet more austerity with extreme vitriol and vehemence.
  • (13) In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears – in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in-your-face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists .
  • (14) What distinguished Rivers' work was the vehemence (and the delight) she brought to the task, the quality of the jokes (she was, above all, a great gag woman) – and of course the fact that the last laugh was always on her.
  • (15) So it is with vehemence rather than violence that they dismiss the Falklands' first referendum on sovereignty, due to start on Sunday, which is expected to reinforce at the ballot box what was determined by guns and tanks in 1982: UK rule over the south Atlantic islands and the sea lanes around them.
  • (16) Yet, at the same time, they resist with great vehemence change in the way they do their business.
  • (17) Although sports fans may be a little surprised by the vehemence of Morrissey's reaction, an event that combined corporate sponsorship from McDonald's with the near-constant presence of the royal family was unlikely to win his favour.
  • (18) When she announced her candidacy she criticised the “financial industry” and “multinational corporations” that have “created huge wealth for a few by focusing too much on short-term profit and too little on long-term value, too much on complex trading schemes and stock buy-backs, too little on investments in new businesses, jobs and fair compensation.” She may not share Sanders’s vehemence on the issue.
  • (19) The rising number of interests in the war and the vehemence of the protagonists is, however, making attempts to control Lebanon evermore difficult.
  • (20) Mediated by cognitive variables persons with emphatic perception may develop an association between anxiety and allergic processes with high probability, the reciprocal influence of which can increase with vehemence.

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