impassion

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ passion.

Verb

impassion (third-person singular simple present impassions, present participle impassioning, simple past and past participle impassioned)

  1. (transitive) make passionate, instill passion in
    • 1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States‎:
      Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.
    • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:
      Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.
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