impassion
verbEtymology From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion.
1
make passionate, instill passion in
- 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.1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States:
- 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.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
- Derived terms
- impassionable
- Related terms
- impassionate