the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Heat.
n. Warmth of passion or affection; ardor; vehemence; eagerness.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Intense heat: as, “the ardency of the sun,” Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 27.
n. Warmth or passion or feeling; ardor; eagerness: as, the ardency of love or zeal.
n. Nautical, a tendency of some ships to come quickly to the wind.
Word Usage
""The better to share you with," she will eventually declare, before not eating them whole but tasting their specific Coop and March delicacies with equal ardency."