All 20 Uses of
ardent
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.†
p. 16.1 *ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- I am too ardent in execution and too impatient of difficulties.†
p. 19.8
- We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.†
p. 23.5ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
- You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.†
p. 31.1
- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.†
p. 42.5ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.†
p. 46.8ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
- My application was at first fluctuating and uncertain; it gained strength as I proceeded and soon became so ardent and eager that the stars often disappeared in the light of morning whilst I was yet engaged in my laboratory.†
p. 51.6ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.†
p. 54.1
- When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.†
p. 95.3ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
- This was indeed a godlike science, and I ardently desired to become acquainted with it.†
p. 115.1
- I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that possible when I did not even understand the sounds for which they stood as signs?†
p. 116.6
- I ardently desired to understand them, and bent every faculty towards that purpose, but found it utterly impossible.†
p. 121.0
- She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.†
p. 126.6ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- Pitiless as you have been towards me, I now see compassion in your eyes; let me seize the favourable moment and persuade you to promise what I so ardently desire.†
p. 149.2ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
- His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the world-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination.†
p. 161.5ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- It is true, he seldom came to see me, for although he ardently desired to relieve the sufferings of every human creature, he did not wish to be present at the agonies and miserable ravings of a murderer.†
p. 183.2ardently = with intense enthusiasm (or another emotion)
- I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head.†
p. 202.5
- At such moments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the daemon more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.†
p. 208.5ardent = feeling intense emotion (often enthusiasm or love)
- Think not, Walton, that in the last moments of my existence I feel that burning hatred and ardent desire of revenge I once expressed; but I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary.†
p. 219.7
- They were forever ardent and craving; still I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned.†
p. 224.1
Definition:
showing or feeling intense emotion -- typically strong positive feelings such as enthusiasm or love