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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ardor, ardour, elan, zealnoun

    a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)

    "they were imbued with a revolutionary ardor"; "he felt a kind of religious zeal"

  2. ardor, ardournoun

    intense feeling of love

  3. ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidnessnoun

    feelings of great warmth and intensity

    "he spoke with great ardor"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Ardournoun

    Etymology: ardor, Lat. heat.

    Joy, like a ray of the sun, reflects with a greater ardour and quickness, when it rebounds upon a man from the breast of his friend. South.

    The soldiers shout around with gen’rous rage;
    He prais’d their ardour, inly pleas’d to see
    His host. John Dryden, Fables.

    Unmov’d the mind of Ithacus remain’d,
    And the vain ardours of our love restrain’d. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

    Nor delay’d the winged saint,
    After his charge receiv’d; but from among
    Thousand celestial ardours, where he stood
    Veil’d with his gorgeous wings, up-springing light,
    Flew thro’ the midst of heav’n. Paradise Lost, b. v.

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  1. ardour

    Ardour is an intense feeling of enthusiasm, passion, or love for something or someone. It's a strong emotion marked by great fervor, zeal, or devotion.

Wikidata

  1. Ardour

    Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, OS X and FreeBSD. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour's intention is to provide digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Ardour is free software. People who download via the ardour.org website are asked to pay for downloading Ardour. Without paying, users can still download the full source code and the full version for GNU/Linux, but the OSX binary comes without the ability to load or save AU plugin settings. Ardour 3.0, with support for MIDI and many other significant new capabilities, was released in March, 2013.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ardour in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ardour in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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