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Impassion vs Impassioned - What's the difference?

impassion | impassioned |

As a verb impassion

is make passionate, instill passion in.

As an adjective impassioned is

filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

impassion

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • make passionate, instill passion in
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Arnold Bennett, title=Your United States, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports--football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting--which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people. }}

    impassioned

    English

    Alternative forms

    *empassioned

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.