vehement


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Synonyms for vehement

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Synonyms for vehement

extreme in degree, strength, or effect

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Synonyms for vehement

marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions

characterized by great force or energy

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They were my own vehement longings for the pleasures of wealth that awoke, though it was in love's name that I now asked for them.
I'm not as young as I was.' Mr Flintwinch had pulled him into his coat with vehement energy.
The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away.
This, nevertheless, he almost despaired of her accepting, when he recollected the frequent and vehement assurances he had received from her, that the world put in balance with him would make her no amends for his loss.
Molly, on the contrary, was silenced by this evidence, and very fairly gave up a cause which she had hitherto maintained with so many tears, and with such solemn and vehement protestations of the purest love and constancy.
He saw a vehement young man, powder-smeared and frowzled, whom he knew to be him.
They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the present of the objects; which are the points that conduce to fascination, if any such thing there be.
He went back to his rooms, but they filled him with horror, he had been so wretched in them; he tried once more to read Burton's book, but, as he read, he told himself again and again what a fool he had been; it was he who had made the suggestion that they should go away, he had offered the money, he had forced it upon them; he might have known what would happen when he introduced Griffiths to Mildred; his own vehement passion was enough to arouse the other's desire.
Eschewing the current fashion for gigantism in both photography and video, Campus here opted for a vehement intimacy, filling the main space of the small gallery with five projected works and showing another isolated piece on a monitor around the corner.
The move follows confirmation from the Thai authorities that two boys had tested positive for the virus, reversing days of vehement denials that the country was facing a crisis.
Was she surprised by the vehement negative response she immediately received not just from Hootie Johnson but by many in the general public?
Facing vehement congressional opposition, he shifted his position in July 1993, when he announced "don't ask, don't tell."
They cheered as their Tory MP Peter Viggers voiced vehement opposition to the centre.
Reader Mark Elsworth emailed us with this vehement put-down: "How Loyd Grossman got a job on British TV I'll never know.
The surviving half of TV's Two Fat Ladies was hailed by Scottish party activists as "our answer" to Sir Sean Connery, a vehement supporter of the SNP.