[f. as prec.] = VEHEMENCE.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 280. The same ought to be asked with no lesse feruentnes and vehementnesse of desire.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. iv. 2. Both the vehementnesse of his grefe, & the earnestnesse of his praying.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. lxxxiv. 625. Tainted with some ill smell … gotten through the vehementnes of the fire.
1674. R. Godfrey, Inj. & Ab. Physic, 99. The blame is impos’d on the too vehementness of the Disease, when the Doctor is often more in fault.
