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impassion, v.|ɪmˈpæʃən| Also 6–9 em-. [ad. It. impassionare (Florio), f. im- (im-1) + passione passion.] trans. To fill or inflame with passion; to infuse passion into; to stir the passions or feelings of; to excite deeply or strongly. Also absol.
1591Spenser Daphn. v, My soule it deepely doth empassion. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 25 Sore am I impassioned for the storme thy tranquillity is in child with. 1647H. More Song of Soul i. iii. xxxiii, Doth not that sad sight..empassion his good spright With deeper sorrow? ― Poems 3 Lovers..impassion'd With outward forms. 1804W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. II. 247 The whole narrative..agitates and impassions like a novel. 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. 212 Metastasio..almost always raises and impassions the style of the recitative immediately preceding. 1894S. A. Brooke Tennyson xii. 186 Its subject impassioned its writer. |