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perfervid

adjective /pəːˈfəːvɪd/

  1. Extremely, excessively, or feverishly passionate; zealous.

    Manders — perfervid — 'hell'-ing excitedly (was there no one left on earth to convert but me?), quoting over a century from Marx and Nietzsche to Lenin, Lloyd George, and Eden, and on to Vessant and Mundaine and himself...

Where it comes from

From Late Latin perfervidus, from Latin per- + fervidus. By surface analysis, per- + fervid; compare pellucid.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry perfervid (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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