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11 words match “IMPASSION”

IMPASSION v.
To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic] Chapman.
IMPASSIONABLE a.
Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
IMPASSIONATE a. 3 definitions
Strongly affected. Smart.
IMPASSIONED p.
cterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse.
DISIMPASSIONED a.
Free from warmth of passion or feeling.
ELOQUENT a.
Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher. O Death, all-eloquent! You only prove What dust we dote on when 't is man we love. Pope.
EMPASSION v.
To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. [Obs.] Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
ENTHUSIASM n.
A state of impassioned emotion; transport; elevation of fancy; exaltation of soul; as, the poetry of enthusiasm. Resolutions adopted in enthusiasm are often repented of when excitement has been succeeded by the wearing duties of hard everyday routine. Froude. Exhibiting the seeming contradiction of susceptibility to en…
O interj.
n calling or directly addressing a person or personified object; also, as an emotional or impassioned exclamation expressing pain, grief, surprise, desire, fear, etc. For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Ps. cxix. 89. O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. Ps. cxix. 97.
PASSIONATE v.
To affect with passion; to impassion. [Obs.] Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, The godly kind and queen did passionate. Spenser.
POEM n.
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.