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quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence.

Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

Vehemence of temper. [Obs.]

Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness; as, the ardency of love or zeal.

To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

Vehemence of endeavor; eagerness; ardor; zeal. An end . . . worthy our utmost contenion to obtain. Rogers.

To talk with vehemence, importunity, or reiteration; to bluster. [Low]

A figure by which a word is repeated with vehemence or emphasis, as in the following lines: - Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea. Coleridge.

To cry out from earnestness or passion; to utter with vehemence; to call out or declare loudly; to protest vehemently; to vociferate; to shout; as, to exclaim against oppression with wonder or astonishment; "The field is won!" he exclaimed.

To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.

Intense excitement or earnestness; vehemence or heat of passion; ardor. The red glow of scorn. Shak.

essed by business; hurry; urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence. I said in my haste, All men are liars. Ps. cxvi. 11. To make haste, to hasten.

Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. "The heat of their division." Shak.

Heat or excitement of mind or manner; violence; vehemence; impetuousity; ardor; fury. M. Arnold.

To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective. Spenser.

Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper. Shak.

One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness. Hammond.

To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.

Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.