ardency

noun5

1. •
   The quality of being ardent.
2. •
   Intensity of feelings.

   • So is their ioyes with fearefull passions mixt, Which doth encrease the ardencie of loue, On the forbidden thinges our eyes are fixt — 1597
3. •
   Intensity of devotion.

   • He repayred to God with this prayer, and said nothinge. Yet wyth a great ardency of spirit, he pearsed Gods eares. — 1548
4. •
   Intensity of heat or burning.

   • Field-tilling Swains driue home their toiling teams, Out-wearied with ardencie of heat: — 1596
5. •
   Intensity of light.

   • One could not look a moment, without a weeping of the sight, into the blinding ardency of the western atmosphere, so charged was it with the ceaseless gushing of the crimson glory — 1891