ardour
English
Noun
ardour (countable and uncountable, plural ardours)
- British and Canadian spelling of ardor
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
- The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:
Translations
ardour — see ardor
Old French
Noun
ardour oblique singular, f (oblique plural ardours, nominative singular ardour, nominative plural ardours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of ardur
- toun ardour et l’estudie de aprendre […] deit estre provee