noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
religious
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The connection between religious fervour and rebellion-as in the Taiping rebellion of the 1850s-is vivid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few businessmen admit privately to admiring his honesty, if not always his fervour .
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Do you detect a touch of moral fervour rippling its unsightly way across the normally limpid Weltanschauung of Oliver Russell?
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Nowhere else in the world can match the fervour of it.
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The young magistrate had embraced orthodoxy with the fervour of a recent convert.
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To them we should respond with greater fervour .
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Whether such brave ideas can thrive in the rough tide of freedom alongside economic want and nationalist fervour remains to be seen.
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With the fervour of a convert, she determined to spread her new faith in strongly Protestant Wimbledon.