ardurous

ardurous
ardurous (adj.) "full of ardor," 1770, a variant of ARDUOUS (Cf. arduous) with overtones of amorous, generally useful only to poets and first attested in Chatterton; perhaps, then, like his works, an instance of faux medievalism.

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