Raging vs Ardent - What's the difference?
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging . No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
A display of rage.
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Full of ardor; fervent, passionate.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 43
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=4
Burning; glowing; shining.
Raging is a related term of ardent.
As adjectives the difference between raging and ardent
is that raging is volatile, very active or unpredictable while ardent is full of ardor; fervent, passionate.As a verb raging
is .As a noun raging
is a display of rage.raging
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!
ardent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
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.}}