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passionful, a. rare.|ˈpæʃənfʊl|
[f. passion n. + -ful.]
†1. Full of suffering, sorrowful. Obs. rare—1.
1605A. Wotton Answ. Pop. Articles 55 In this passionful agony and agonizing griefe.
2. a. Full of passion, passionate.
1881Fairbairn Stud. Life Christ v. 86 A queen..strong, passionful, pitiless. 1885Blackw. Mag. July 138 Shaking the senate with peals of passionful thunder.
b. Subject to or susceptible to passion.
1902Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 33 The savage man conceived the diverse bodies collectively constituting his environment..to be living, thinking, willing, passionful beings.
3. Full of anger, wrathful.
1901‘Zack’ Tales Dunstable Weir 187 ‘You mustn't go like that’, she burst out, passionful.
Hence ˈpassionfulness, the state or quality of being passionful.
1922Glasgow Herald 16 Dec. 10/6 Several members..by their passionfullness of heart and uncontrollable spirit had..broken the order and decorum of the House of Commons. |