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Ardent vs Argent - What's the difference?

ardent | argent |

As adjectives the difference between ardent and argent

is that ardent is full of ardor; fervent, passionate while argent is of silver or silver-coloured.

As a noun argent is

the metal silver.

ardent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.
  • * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43
    • This ardent exploration, absorbing all his energy and interest, made him forget for the moment the mystery of his heritage and the anomaly that cut him off from all his fellows.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=4 citation , passage=I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject. I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.}}
  • Burning; glowing; shining.

    • Related terms

    * ardently * ardent spirits * ardor

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    argent

    English

    (wikipedia argent)

    Alternative forms

    * (heraldry)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The metal silver.
  • (tincture) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1909 , Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry
    • The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent ".
  • (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
  • * Tennyson
    • The polished argent of her breast.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • of silver or silver-coloured.
  • (tincture): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
  • * 1889 , Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

    • Synonyms

    * blanc, silver

    Derived terms

    {{der3, argentic , argentiferous , argentine , argentite , argentum nitricum}}

    Related terms

    * Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

    See also

    *

    Quotations

    * 1667', Those '''argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost * 1733', Or ask of yonder '''argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, ''Essay on Man * 1817', she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her '''argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1817', Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine '''argent luxuries! — John Keats, ''Endymion * 1818', Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair '''argent wings — John Keats, ''Hyperion * 1819', At length burst in the '''argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, ''The Eve of St Agnes * 1891',"A castle '''argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, ''Tess of the d'Urbervilles * 1922', Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled '''argent , honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1922', Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field '''argent displayed. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses * 1967', '''Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets

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