Adjective

(en adjective)

Filled with passion; impassioned.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:

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

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, isbn=9781417971787 , page=459 , passage=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.}}

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, year=1817 , author=Joseph Deniie, John Elihu Hall , title=The Adversaria , date=July, 1817 , volume=4 , issue=1 , page=40 , magazine=The Port Folio for 1817 , publisher=Harrison Hall citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=h-8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA40&dq=impassionate+-Spanish+-Milton&hl=en&ei=pdxOTIrgJILdsAaWktHNDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBzgU

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, passage=“Well sir,” exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Wilkes, int he 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?” }}

* 1900 , George P. Hott, Christ, the Teacher , U. B. Publishing House, page 81:

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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, year=1989 , publisher=Paulist Press , author=Pater A Chambers , by= , title=Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook fo Spiritual Counsel , original=Symvouleftikon Encherirdion , original_year=1801 , section=Chapter Two: Concerning the Mind citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=PosT287bj-0C&pg=PA76&dq=%22impassionate%22&lr=&ei=ENlOTN_cO4iGNr72qJoK&cd=13

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, isbn=9780809130382 , page=76 , passage=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.}}

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, year=1990 , publisher=Cornell University Press , editor=Roger Sanjeck , author=David W. Plath , title=Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology , Section=From Fieldnotes to Ethnography , chapter=Fieldnotes, Field Notes, and the Conferring of Note citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=kjOJT739rO0C&pg=PA384&dq=impassionate+-Spanish+-Milton&hl=en&ei=GOtOTJiQNc-VsQamorhd&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAzgo

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, isbn=9780801497261 , page=384 , passage=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?}}

Lacking passion; dispassionate.

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*:: 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.

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, isbn=9781110347520 , page=77 , passage=“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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, year=2005 , publisher=Lulu.com , author=Alexander T. Newport , title=The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good) , section=Chapter 15: Letter to Veronica citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=xiLusexm2oMC&pg=PA96&dq=%22impassionate%22&lr=&ei=SNpOTPiJE6CwyAT2n7GvCQ&cd=30

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, isbn=9781411640313 , pages=96-97 , passage=From a scholarly standpoint, the book was poorly written: Scholarly works demand keen attention to logical consistency while maintaining an impersonal, impassionate' voice; and while the ''Course'' certainly lack humour, it is anything but ' impassionate , and far from being logically consistent.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

not showing, and not affected by emotion, bias, or prejudice