enthusiasm
/ɪnˈθuziæzəm/ noun B1- An intensity of feeling; an excited interest or eagerness. · Try to curb your enthusiasm.· They have a great enthusiasm for country music.
- Something in which one is keenly interested.
Plural enthusiasms
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“These words had been pronounced with such enthusiasm and evident truth, that every eye was fixed on the count’s forehead, and he himself passed his hand across it, as if he felt Ali’s blood still lingering there.
What I was saying, Villefort, was, that the Bonapartists had not our sincerity, enthusiasm, or devotion.”
A Carpenter, with equal enthusiasm, proposed timber as a preferable method of defense.
Madame de Villefort at this really did turn pale, and was very nearly angry with this household plague, who answered to the name of Edward; but the count, on the contrary, smiled, and appeared to look at the boy complacently, which caused the maternal heart to bound again with joy and enthusiasm.
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