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ardour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ardor \Ar"dor\, n. [L. ardor, fr. ardere to burn: cf. OF. ardor, ardur, F. ardeur.] [Spelt also ardour.]
Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.
Warmth or heat of passion or affection; eagerness; zeal; as, he pursues study with ardor; the fought with ardor; martial ardor.
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pl. Bright and effulgent spirits; seraphim. [Thus used by Milton.]
Syn: Fervor; warmth; eagerness. See Fervor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of ardor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of ardor from=British spelling from2=Canadian spelling English)
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: ardor, elan, zeal]
intense feeling of love [syn: ardor]
feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn: ardor, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness]
Wikipedia
Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application. It runs on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour is intended to be digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.
Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version two or any later version), Ardour is free software. Users who download from ardour.org are asked to pay at least $1 for downloading prebuilt binaries of Ardour; those users then have the right to obtain minor updates until the next major release. Another option is to subscribe, paying $1, $4 or $10 per month. Subscribers can download prebuilt binaries of all updates during the subscription period. (This makes Ardour an example of commercial free-libre software.) Without paying, users can download the full source code for all platforms, or a prebuilt "demo" binary which ceases playback after various time periods.
Ardour 5.0, with support for a new tabbed interface, Lua scripting, VCAs, plugin pin management and many other new features, was released in August, 2016.
The Ardour is a 33.5 km long river flowing in the departments of the Creuse and Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin region of France. The river is a tributary of the Gartempe, so a sub-tributary of the Loire. It flows into the Gartempe near Bersac-sur-Rivalier.
Ardour is the first studio album from Teebs, released on Brainfeeder on October 19, 2010. It was described by Kristina Benson of LA Weekly as "one of the most delicate and lovely albums of the year". Jeff Weiss of Los Angeles Times said, "it's one of the most anticipated records within the Los Angeles beat community".
Usage examples of "ardour".
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.
Let me undeceive you, and believe me when I say that the full gratification of desires can only increase a hundredfold the mutual ardour of two beings who adore each other.
If a feeling of modesty does not deter you from shewing yourself tender, loving, and full of amorous ardour with me in his presence, how could I be ashamed, when, on the contrary, I ought to feel proud of myself?
The intensity of our ardour will excite his own, and he will throw himself at my feet, begging and entreating me to give up to him the only object likely to calm his amorous excitement.
My amorous ardour and my rage forbade all thoughts of rest, and my excited passions conspired against that which would enable them to satisfy their desires.
After we had satiated in part our amorous ardour we breathed again and sat down.
Her ardour made me amorous, and I rendered homage to her charms till I fell asleep with fatigue.
I took her within my arms, and already her captive, I pressed her amorously to my heart, printing on her lips a fiery kiss, which she gave me back with as much ardour.
The ardours thus aroused passed into our talk and we began to discuss the secret which the oracle had revealed.
After all this talking, of which my ardour began to weary, we abandoned ourselves to love, then to sleep, then to love again, and so on alternately till day-break.
It was when he bethought him of that age of his that he was chiefly intrigued by the amazing ardour of this great lady of Bearn.
Marinetta, as cheerful as a lark, ran to lock the door and came back to me, her eyes beaming with ardour.
When everybody had gone to bed, she came into my room with a little frightened manner, calculated to redouble my ardour, but by great good luck, feeling I had a necessity, I took the light and ran to the place where I could satisfy it.
He thought at first that the next time should be right now, then realised that his ardour had cooled even faster than his manhood.
The burning ardour of my love was increased by the abstinence to which I condemned myself, although Lucie did everything in her power to make me break through my determination.