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empassionate

empassionate is the obsolete form of impassionate.

Meaning of impassionate

Adjective (1)

impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)

  1. Filled with passion; impassioned
    • The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 309

Adjective (2)

impassionate (comparative more impassionate, superlative most impassionate)

  1. Lacking passion; dispassionate
    • 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.1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Patriarchal”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 105
    Synonyms:
    dispassionate

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Forms of empassionate

comparativemore empassionate
superlativemost empassionate

Questions about empassionate

What is empassionate the obsolete form of?
Empassionate is the obsolete form of impassionate.

Words near empassionate in the dictionary

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

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