fervourless

English

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Etymology

From fervour +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfəːvələs/

Adjective

fervourless (comparative more fervourless, superlative most fervourless)

  1. Without fervour.
    • 1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush:
      The ancient pulse of germ and birth
      Was shrunken hard and dry,
      And every spirit upon earth
      Seemed fervourless as I.
    • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 26:
      She had accepted her husband's faith after a fervourless girlhood from a mixture of reasons badly thought out.

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