adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an ardent/fervent supporter (= very enthusiastic )
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She is an ardent supporter of the government's proposed tax reforms.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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Then Macleod, to the astonishment of some of his most ardent supporters, decided not to enter the lists.
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But most enthralling was her attraction to two people for whom she wrote her most ardent poems.
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Conversely, often the most ardent champions of a particular nation are people who have little or no ethnic claim to it.
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And it may even be too sanitized for some of his most ardent followers.
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Previously, some of the most ardent opponents of architectural conservation have themselves been architects.
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Many were held in the scientific institutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
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But sober reality will soon dampen the fervour of the most ardent .
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Chris Evans is one of their most ardent fans.
■ NOUN
supporter
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Hope was an ardent supporter of the Society, and was its President from June 1859 until its dissolution after 1878.
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Jerry Falwell were ardent supporters of the Likud and its policies.
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Then Macleod, to the astonishment of some of his most ardent supporters , decided not to enter the lists.
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He held numerous cabinet posts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.
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Many were held in the scientific institutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an ardent advocate of gun control
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Even his most ardent supporters disagreed with this move.
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He was a man of strong beliefs and had always given ardent support to the Reform cause.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton and Al Gore have become ardent defenders of a balanced budget and gay rights.
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He was not an opposition supporter but an ardent disciple of MrMilosevic's Socialist party.
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I was an ardent admirer and supporter of MacBrayne's buses: they opened up the north-west for me.
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Middle-class moralists might be ardent , even strident, but working-class patterns continued to be remarkably resistant and independent.
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Newman had realised that, because of cultural inequalities, many people were not ardent followers of drama as presented in the Theatre.
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She offered ardent prayers to them perpetually, but not one of them would do anything to make Venus their enemy.
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Since Michelangelo was an ardent antiquarian, all this will have been familiar territory.