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impassionating

impassionating is the present participle and gerund of impassionate.

Meaning of impassionate

Verb

impassionate (third-person singular simple present impassionates, present participle impassionating, simple past and past participle impassionated)

  1. (transitive) to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of
    • our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala

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Adjective

impassionating (comparative more impassionating, superlative most impassionating)

  1. (rare) Causing passion; evoking passion.

Forms of impassionating

comparativemore impassionating
superlativemost impassionating

Questions about impassionating

What does impassionating mean?
Impassionating means causing passion; evoking passion.
What is impassionating the present participle and gerund of?
Impassionating is the present participle and gerund of impassionate.
What part of speech is impassionating?
Impassionating is an adjective.

Words near impassionating in the dictionary

  1. impassionate
  2. impassionated
  3. impassionately
  4. impassionateness
  5. impassionates
  6. impassionating
  7. impassioned
  8. impassionedly
  9. impassionedness
  10. impassioning
  11. impassionment

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