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empassion

/ɪmˈpæʃən/

empassion is the archaic spelling of impassion.

Meaning of impassion

Verb

impassion (third-person singular simple present impassions, present participle impassioning, simple past and past participle impassioned)

  1. (transitive) make passionate, instill passion in
    • Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States

Forms of empassion

third-person singular presentempassions
present participleempassioning
past participleempassioned
pastempassioned

Origin of empassion

From em- + passion.

Questions about empassion

What is empassion the archaic spelling of?
Empassion is the archaic spelling of impassion.
How do you pronounce empassion?
Empassion is pronounced /ɪmˈpæʃən/.

Words near empassion in the dictionary

  1. emparts
  2. empasm
  3. empasma
  4. empasmata
  5. empasms
  6. empassion
  7. empassionate
  8. empassioned
  9. empassioning
  10. empassions
  11. empath

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empassion (page history and authors); impassion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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