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impassion

verb

  1. make passionate, instill passion in

    transitive

    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.

Where it comes from

From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry impassion (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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