fervescent
adjEtymology From Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere (“to become boiling hot, inchoate”), from fervere. See fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -escent.
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Archaic Growing hotter.
- Where’s the argentiferous wind-jammer of Nebraska whose fervescent oratory knocked the Chicago Convention head over heels?1897 May 13, “Run Here, Somebody”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, volume LXVII (old series) / XXXII (new series), number 291, Montgomery, Ala.: The Advertiser Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 2: