It is spring, always a time when an NFL general manager’s fancy turns to quarterbacks. But in this first season of true free agency, the courting has been especially perfervid. (Peter King, Pro Football, Sports Illustrated, 04/25/1994, p. 26.)
[In the spring of 1952, Roger Kahn] was a 24-year-old reporter for The New York Herald Tribune when he was assigned to travel with the [Brooklyn] Dodgers. It was a rich time in the game’s history, especially in New York, the undisputed center of the baseball universe, home to three teams and three perfervid fan bases. (Bruce Weber, “Roger Kahn, Who Lifted Sportswriting With ‘Boys of Summer,’ Dies at 92,” The New York Times, 02/07/2020.)
This word can also be a synonym for ardent, eager, intense or zealous.
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