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Passionate

//ˈpæʃənɪt// adj, verb

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Adjective

1
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
"Mandy is a passionate lover."
2
Fired with intense feeling.
"1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93, Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms."
3
Suffering; sorrowful. obsolete
"She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent."

Adjective

1
having or expressing strong emotions wordnet

Verb

1
To fill with passion, or with another given emotion. obsolete
"Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...]."
2
To express with great emotion. obsolete
"Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passiōnātus (“affected, impassioned, libidinous, easely angered”). Equivalent to passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French passionné.

Etymology 2

From passion + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French passionner.

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