ardent supporter• Then Macleod, to the astonishment of some of his most ardent supporters, decided not to enter the lists.• He held numerouscabinetposts and was an ardent supporter of Mrs Thatcher.• Jerry Falwell were ardent supporters of the Likud and its policies.• Hope was an ardent supporter of the Society, and was its President from June 1859 until its dissolution after 1878.• Many were held in the scientificinstitutions where some of the nonconformists most ardent supporters worked.
Originardent
(1300-1400)Old FrenchLatin, present participle of ardere“to burn”