Adjective

(en adjective)

Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.

Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.

* Prior

Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .

(obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.

* 1596 , , II. i. 544:

She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.

* 1599 , , I. ii. 124:

Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

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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, 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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, 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.}}