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amor acendrado

English translation: all-consuming love

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Portuguese term or phrase:amor acendrado
English translation:all-consuming love
Entered by: Nick Taylor

14:50 Oct 22, 2018
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / In A Biography
Portuguese term or phrase: amor acendrado
Context (description of Camilo Castelo Branco's romance novels):

As novelas passionais de Camilo contribuem para el Romantismo com algumas tônicas distintas: o amor paixão, violento, acendrado, decabelado, ultra-romântico, onde não há lugar para a reflexão, o dado crítico, a razão.

Obrigada,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran, MFA
United States
Local time: 04:43
all-consuming love
Explanation:
all-consuming love
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Nick Taylor
Local time: 09:43
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +3unblemished love
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
4 +1pure love
Oliver Simões
4 +1burning love
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
4all-consuming love
Nick Taylor


  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
unblemished love


Explanation:
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Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Purdom
5 hrs
agree  T o b i a s
7 hrs
agree  Verginia Ophof
22 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
pure love


Explanation:
acendrado: Isento de impurezas, por efeito de algum processo artificial (ouro acendrado); LIMPO; PURO; ACRISOLADO (Aulete)

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Oliver Simões
United States
Local time: 01:43
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 56

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Richard Purdom
5 hrs
  -> Thank you, Richard.
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
burning love


Explanation:
Diria assim...

Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Portugal
Local time: 09:43
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Margarida Ataide
10 mins
  -> Obrigada, Margarida!
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
all-consuming love


Explanation:
all-consuming love

Nick Taylor
Local time: 09:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 119
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