An archaic or dialectal term that may refer to someone more ardent, or a comparative form related to ardor.
Possibly from ardor with a comparative suffix, or a dialectal variant of related terms, though this appears as an extremely rare historical word with uncertain etymology.
This word is so obscure that it barely registers in modern dictionaries—it's a linguistic ghost, suggesting that English speakers once had a way to compare levels of passion that we've now forgotten.
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