impassionate

UK /ɪmˈpæʃənət/ US /ɪmˈpæʃənət/
adj 2verb 1

Definitions

adj

1

Filled with passion; impassioned

The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]

It is essential, as in Milton, that poetry be simple, sensuous, and impassionate:—simple that it may appeal to the elements and the primary laws of our nature; sensuous, since it is only by sensuous images that we can elicit truth at a flash; impassionate since images must be vivid, in order to move our passions and awake our affections.

verb

1

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

adj

1

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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