Soaring vs Impassioned - What's the difference?
soaring | impassioned |
Mounting on the wing; rising aloft; towering in thought or mind.
The act of mounting on the wing, or of towering in thought or mind; intellectual flight.
assurgent, ascending
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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.