Impassioned

Alternative forms

• empassioned 16th-18th c.

Origin

From impassion + -ed.

Full definition of impassioned

Adjective

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.