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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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  • 1833 Brewster Nat. Magic iv. 79 Spirits of wine, or any ardent spirit.

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  • 1684 T. Burnet Th. Earth II. 63 Inflammable salts, coal and other fossiles that are
    ardent.

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  • 1674 Petty Disc. bef. R. Soc. 93 The Spirituosity of Liquors, or in what proportions
    several Liquors contein more or less of inflameable or ardent parts.
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