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/vˈiəməns/ /vəhˈiməns/ Listen

noun

Vehemence n.

The quality or state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence of the wind; to speak with vehemence.

Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions. "I... tremble at his vehemence of temper."

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Etymology of 'Vehemence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vehemence" Quotes from Famous Books

... hazel-bush, she had her head sunken deeply between her shoulders, her mouth hideously agape, her eyes staring vaguely before her, her hands pressed to her swollen stomach, her breath issuing with unnatural vehemence, and her abdomen convulsively, spasmodically rising and falling. Meanwhile from her throat were issuing moans which at times caused her yellow teeth to show bare like those of ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... with hurried steps. The sacred duty of revenge called him with a vehemence we cannot now realize. He had sworn to let slip no chance of taking vengeance on the burners of his brother. Often he had sought news of them, and often renewed his resolution; and now that he had found his foe, was he to idly suffer ...

— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston

... principle and practice, is an ornament to his profession, and an honour to the country he is in; and bear with me if I say, the plainness of his dress, the sanctity of his manners, the simplicity of his doctrine, and the vehemence of his expression, have a sort of resemblance to the ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... his eye while he was expressing himself in this elaborately indignant manner, scrutinizing me with a searching curiosity which was, to say the least of it, a little at variance with the vehemence of his language and the warmth of his tone. He laughed uneasily when our eyes met, and recovered his smoothly confidential manner in the instant that elapsed before ...

— Armadale • Wilkie Collins

... at her vehemence; and Barbara might be thankful not to understand it. All her native gentleness, all her reticence of feeling, as a wife and a gentlewoman, had been goaded out of her. The process had been going on for some time, but this last revelation was the crowning ...

— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood

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