impassionate

adj
/ɪmˈpæʃənət/

Etymology

From Italian impassionato. By surface analysis, in- (“into”) + passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

  1. borrowed from impassionato

Definitions

  1. Filled with passion

    Filled with passion; impassioned

    • The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]
    • “Well sir,” exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Wilkes, in the day of his glory, and during the broad blaze of his patriotism,—“well sir! and will you dare deny, the Mr. Wikles is a great man, and an eloquent men?”
  2. to affect powerfully

    to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of

    • our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger
  3. Lacking passion

    Lacking passion; dispassionate

    • Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very bumpy in the head, Patriarch was the word for him.
    • “Try to serve well and to show yourself worthy,” he added, turning sternly to Borís. “I am glad— Are you here on leave?” he recited, in his impassionate voice.

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