vehemency

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vehementia.

Noun

vehemency (countable and uncountable, plural vehemencies)

  1. (archaic) Vehemence.
    • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      , II.12:
      Preachers know that the emotion which surpriseth them whilst they are in their earnest speech doth animate them towards belief, and that being angrie we more violently give our selves to defend our proposition, emprint it in our selves, and embrace the same with more vehemencie and approbation than we did being in our temperate and reposed sense.
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