impassioned
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- empassioned [16th–18th c.]
Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)
- Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]
- 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “In which the Occurrence of the Accident mentioned in the last Chapter, affords an opportunity to a couple of Gentlemen to tell Stories against each other”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
- The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.