impassioned
English
Alternative forms
- empassioned [16th-18th c.]
Etymology
From impassion + -ed.
Adjective
impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)
- Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:
- She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […]
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, VI:
- 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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:
Translations
fervent
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