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Impassion

Impassion \Im*pas"sion\, v. t. [Pref. im- in + passion. Cf. Empassion, Impassionate, v.] To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic]
--Chapman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impassion

1590s, from Italian impassionare "to fill with passion," from im- "in, into" (see im-) + passione "passion," from Latin passionem (see passion). Related: Impassioned.

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impassion

vb. (context transitive English) make passionate, instill passion in

Usage examples of "impassion".

Standing at the grave of the woman who died, Jonelle gave an impassioned summary on the tragedy of two sides --pro- and antiabortion here--not being able to come to an understanding, having to resort to violence--violence that in this case took the life of an innocent bystander.

Mitya kept exclaiming more and more frenziedly, repeating himself incoherently, growing impassioned and bitter.

The Meccan chapters, the early ones, are in general short, fiery, impassioned and prophetic.

His arm still outflung in an impassioned gesture, remained there as though stricken with paralysis.

It is remarkable that the most naturally elegant and truly impassioned songs in our literature were written by a ploughman in honour of the rustic lasses around him.

Riddel is remembered, and the absence of fair Clarinda is lamented in strains both impassioned and pathetic.

Stung to the quick by an indiscretion which, as I did not yet know women thoroughly, seemed to me without example, I cast all fears of displeasing to the winds, related the adventure with all the warmth of an impassioned poet, and without disguising or attenuating in the least the desires which the charms of the Greek beauty had inspired me with.

The impassioned patience of his ingenious observations delights me as much as the masterpieces of art.

It was to meet this unsophisticated, impassioned, and confiding girl, that Alfred Stevens bestowed such particular pains on his costume.

During our time together, he constantly berated me for my impassioned attachment to things sensuous, my dis ease bringing down high-powered vehicles, and my way of expressing the joy I felt while issuing citations for moving violations.

For it was amid the same obscure ravines, pine-tufted precipices and falling waters of the Alps, that he afterward placed the outcast Manfred--an additional corroboration of the justness of the remarks which I ventured to offer, in adverting to his ruminations in contemplating, while yet a boy, the Malvern hills, as if they were the scenes of his impassioned childhood.

In brief, the little troubadour, having downed a considerable quantity of unmixed Miraval red wine with the corans one night, finally elected to translate his fiercely impassioned verses into modestly passionate ac­tion.

It was a long time since he had seen the Archdeacon, and Dom Claude was one of those solemn and impassioned personages, the meeting with whom always deranges the equilibrium of the sceptical philosopher.

The deadly events in Porto Alegre, after the enemy occupied the city and had been allowed by their officers to go completely out of control for seven days before they were finally reigned them in, would forever be known as the Rape of Alegre…and it would be an event that would impassion the Brazilian people and the allies to ensure that their enemies were never again in a position to threaten or harm them in such a way.

After that he put aside his notes and research for the editorial he'd planned for this August issue, and instead he wrote an impassioned plea that each reader make himself personally responsible for doing something about the menace of bacteriological warfare.