Meaning of impassionate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Filled with passion; impassioned
2. Lacking passion; dispassionate

Examples

“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?””

“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 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?”

“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.”

““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.”

“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.”

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