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ardently
[ ahr-dnt-lee ]
adverb
- with intense emotion; passionately or fervently:
I ardently cheered for Mexico in all their games, my eyes watering when I heard the national anthem.
- with great conviction or zeal:
To reduce our environmental footprint and save money, our family of six has ardently employed the simple strategy "Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle."
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ardently1
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Example Sentences
This is an inverse Pietà, and something of a sexual anarchist; she ardently refuses to be oriented in an orientation.
Even as Hispanics favored Democrats this week, some Republicans wooed them ardently and made surprising inroads.
When my first book, Superbad, came out back in 2001, I read reviews ardently, excited and a little surprised to be an author.
The country he had so ardently defended and the city of Benghazi, which he had helped to save and he so loved, proved his undoing.
White evangelicals are slightly more skeptical, but the poll found that it made no difference in how ardently they support Romney.
She loves me ardently; and her power with my father, except on one point, is almost omnipotent.
Devoutly and ardently did Mr. Snodgrass wish that the ladies could know he had come in.
Thus he used to say frequently that he ardently desired that we might soon know his language.
The obscurity lent him courage to keep his eyes fastened as ardently as he liked upon the girl who sat in the firelight.
He was ardently devoted to the science, and contributed much to spread a correct knowledge of it among the people by his lectures.
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