Fervent vs Convicted - What's the difference?
fervent | convicted |
Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
* 1819 , , Mathilda , ch. 3:
Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
* 1876 , , "Mr. Captain and the Nymph," in Little Novels ,
Glowing, burning, very hot.
* 1611 , :
(convict)
To find guilty
# as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
# informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.
(legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
As an adjective fervent
is exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.As a verb convicted is
(convict).fervent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As I returned my fervent hopes were dashed by so many fears.
- Never again would those fresh lips touch his lips with their fervent kiss!
- But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.