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Vehement   /vˈiəmənt/  /vəhˈimənt/   Listen
Vehement

adjective
1.
Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid.  Synonyms: fierce, tearing, trigger-happy, violent.  "In a tearing rage" , "Vehement dislike" , "Violent passions"
2.
Characterized by great force or energy.  "Vehement clapping" , "A vehement defense"






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"Vehement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Themistokles took a vigorous part in public affairs, possessed by vehement ambition. Determined from the very outset that he would become the leading man in the state, he eagerly entered into all the schemes for displacing those who where then at the head of affairs, especially attacking Aristeides, the son of Lysimachus, whose policy he ...
— Plutarch's Lives, Volume I (of 4) • Plutarch

... Heat of the sun, immoderate A blow on the head Overmuch use of hot wines, spices, garlic, onions, hot baths, overmuch waking, &c. Idleness, solitariness, or overmuch study, vehement ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... there may be at a future time? Good God! are there no possible situations in which resistance to a government will be justifiable? There have been such situations, and may again. Surely there may be. Why, even the most vehement strugglers for indefeasible right and passive obedience have been forced (after involving themselves in the most foolish inconsistencies, and after the most ludicrous shuffling in attempting to deny it) to admit, that there may be such a conjuncture. They have tried to qualify the admission ...
— A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper - Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father • William Cooper

... on a vehement slope, so that the buggy, following the new-made road, ran on the two off-wheels mostly till we dipped head-first into a ford, climbed up a cliff, raced along down, dipped again, and pulled up dishevelled at "Larry's" for ...
— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling

... was another outburst of cheering, if anything, more vehement than before. Scarcely had they finished, when Captain Josh strode rapidly ...
— Rod of the Lone Patrol • H. A. Cody


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