The fervor of some people...
1
: intensity of feeling or expression <booing and cheering with almost equal fervor — Alan Rich>
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: intense heat
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Examples of FERVOR
The fervor surrounding her campaign continued right through election day.
The novel captures the revolutionary fervor of the period.
As Nina has grown more observant, Andras has become distanced from her. Her religious fervor doesn't interest him. Coming to tradition late, Nina has all the pedantry of an autodidact. Her strivings seem inauthentic to Andras, and not at all spiritual. —Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls, 1998