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impassioned

English

Alternative forms

  • empassioned [16th-18th c.]

Etymology

From impassion +? -ed.

Adjective

impassioned (comparative more impassioned, superlative most impassioned)

  1. Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.9:
      She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation []
    • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, VI:
      The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

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fevered

English

Etymology

fever +? -ed

Adjective

fevered (comparative more fevered, superlative most fevered)

  1. Affected by a fever; feverish.
  2. Heated; impassioned; enthusiastic to the point of distraction.
    • 2010, Noam Chomsky, The Iranian threat, Z Magazine, vol 23, number 7:
      To rephrase in less fevered rhetoric, a regional alliance might take shape independent of the U.S.

Derived terms

  • unfevered

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Verb

fevered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of fever

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