What does impassionate mean?
Impassionate means Filled with passion; impassioned.
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/ɪmˈpæʃənət/ · adjective
Filled with passion; impassioned.
Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.
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.
“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?”
The first and main reason is the fact that after the disobedience of Adam, his body received the whole of its existence and constitutions from physical pleasure that is impassionate and irrational.
And then what about Margaret Mead? IS it just coincidence that the most impassionate ethnographic disputes of the decade are swirling around the figure of her who was first mother of Media Anthropology?
our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger
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.
Use impassionate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Impassionate means Filled with passion; impassioned.
Common synonyms include impassioned, passionate, dispassionate.
Possible antonyms include disimpassioned, apathetic, indifferent.
Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.
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