Middle English Dictionary Entry
ferventlī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | ferventlī adv. |
| Etymology | From adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Hotly, fierily; brightly; fig. ardently; (b) of bodily suffering: bitterly, painfully; (c) smellen ~, to stink.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)157 : Feruently: Ferventer.
- 1447 Bokenham Sts.(Arun 327)78 : Margarete, Virgyne & martyr, whom dede hete The loue of Ihesu..So feruently.
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.102 : But loue of hauyng brenneþ feruently, More fersere þan þe verray fuyre of helle.
- ?a1475 Ludus C.(Vsp D.8)15/496 : Þe holy gost apperyd fful veruently with brennyng ffere.
- c1450(a1400) Orolog.Sap.(Dc 114)365/41 : Drye stickis ȝeuen kynde mater to bodily fyre forto brenne more feruently.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 2250)10544 : Heuenly fyr most bren þat fo As dyd this day feruently.
- a1500(1426) Lydg.Hen.VI TP (Hrl 7333)308 : Furious Mars, þe ferfull red sterre..With his bemes cast moste feruently.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)382 : With hys beames bryght he shone so feruently That he therwith gladyd all the company.
b
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.157 : Right as a bee..stingeþ bitterly; He flyeth his way, it akeþ feruently.
- c1450(c1425) Brut-1419 (Cmb Kk.1.12)372/20 : God vised hym sone aftir with Infirmyteez..so feruentli he was ytak.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)44a/a : Þe nose is nedeful..to knowe bitwene smokes..wheþir it smelle sweteliche oþir feruentliche [L suauiter ac fetentem].
2.
(a) Ardently, passionately, zealously, earnestly, eagerly; (b) fiercely, bitterly, harshly, severely.
Associated quotations
a
- (?c1422) Hoccl.ASM (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)14 : Sotil matires..Of whiche y feruently desire trete.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1384 : Frendes ferventliche hym preye To senden after more.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ecclus.51.24 : Y loued feruentli [WB(1): gretly I loouede; L zelatus sum] good.
- c1430(a1410) Love Mirror (Brsn e.9)285 : He loueth vs so feruentlye and we loue not hym aȝenward.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)32/2 : Forto quyke a man þe feruentlier and þe hertlier to performe..seruicis to god.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)175 : Whi schalt thou and wolte thou so bisili and so feruentli and sturdili stonde vpon this text?
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)17/15 : Beholde þis gluton, how ferventlie sho etis!
- c1450 Spec.Chr.(2) (Hrl 6580)230/31 : The more eny man rysez feruently [L ardencius] in-to loue of god.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)1429 : Thow shuldist nat so feruently have take it to þyn hert.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)478 : He that loueth wonder feruently.
- c1450(a1400) Orolog.Sap.(Dc 114)358/20 : Þat this doctrine of me more feruentlye meve the.
- a1500(a1450) *St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)116 : Feruently fretand hys fleshe In praers bath and in pennaunce.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)15/20 : We owe not to dispeire..but þe more feruently pray god.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2162 : So feruently eche other dide assaile.
- (1441) Visit.Alnwick8 : And that ye rebuke ne repreue thaym cruelly ne feruently at no tyme, specyally in audience of seculeres.
- (1448) Shillingford64 : He wolde not lete calle so fervently atte barre apon the Mayer and Commines.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Merlin (Corp-C 80)19414 : They fowhten ful Ferventle with the Meyne of Murgalaunt.
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)78 : He pursewed..Athasius..so fervently, that he durst not appere openly VII ȝere.
- (1465) Paston (Gairdner)4.205 : The old Lady and the Duke is set fervently ageyn us.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)36/32 : Þo þinges þat most feruently displeseþ þe in oþir men.