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passionating

passionating is the present participle and gerund of passionate.

Meaning of passionate

Verb

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)

  1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
    • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Antonyms:
    dispassionate
  2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
    • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

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Questions about passionating

What is passionating the present participle and gerund of?
Passionating is the present participle and gerund of passionate.

Words near passionating in the dictionary

  1. passionate friendships
  2. passionated
  3. passionately
  4. passionateness
  5. passionates
  6. passionating
  7. passionative
  8. passioned
  9. passionflower
  10. passionflowers
  11. passionfruit

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