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  • 1848 Mariotti Italy II. i. 20 Many an ardent patriot.

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  • 1777 Watson Philip II (1793) II. xiv. 221 Ardent to behold him, after an absence of
    several years.

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  • 1539 Tonstall Serm. Palm Sund. (1823) 51 He was of all the apostels moste ardent in
    fayth.

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  • 1538 Starkey England 144 Yf we desyre wyth pure affecte and ardent mynd.

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  • 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 288/2 He was the more ardaunt to martirdome.

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  • c. 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iv. iii. 121 3if he [be] ardaunt in auarice.

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  • 1827 Hood Mids. Fairies 3 Fish, Quenching their ardent scales in watry gloom.

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  • 1718 Pope Iliad iii. 525 From rank to rank she darts her ardent eyes.

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  • 1603 Holland Plutarch (1657) 117 Fixing his eyes fast upon a fiery and ardent mirror.

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  • 1799 G. Smith Laboratory II. 437 An Ardent Water to engrave Steel deeply. . .Take
    a sponge, dipt into ardent water.
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