Ardent Spirits Definition

noun
Strong alcoholic liquors, such as whiskey or gin.
American Heritage
Strong alcoholic liquor; whiskey, gin, etc.
Webster's New World

Strong distilled alcoholic liquor or whiskey.

"Even then I realized the possibilities of my suburb, that hotbed of revolution in which heroes, inventors, and practical men of science, rogues and scoundrels, virtues and vices, were all packed together by poverty, stifled by necessity, drowned in drink, and consumed by ardent spirits."
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Ardent Spirits Sentence Examples

  • There were, however, some ardent spirits who continued to work along the old lines and whose watchword was revivalism, and out of their efforts came the Bible Christian, the Independent Methodist and the Primitive Methodist denominations.

  • They agreed to raise an annual sum of £200 for the expenses of their commonwealth; they assigned their governor a salary of £20; they prohibited the sale of ardent spirits to the Indians and imprisonment for debt.

  • They are said to be disappearing owing to the use of ardent spirits.

  • He was very trenchant in his criticism of the Government; thus giving satisfaction to ardent spirits in the Unionist ranks, but causing ministerial speakers to contrast his bitterness and violence with Mr. Balfour's quieter methods.

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STSITS

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