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passionate

/ˈpæʃənɪt/ adjective B2
  1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both. · Mandy is a passionate lover.
  2. Fired with intense feeling.
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Stapleton himself seems to have been capable of jealousy, and when he saw the baronet paying court to the lady, even though it was part of his own plan, still he could not help interrupting with a passionate outburst which revealed the fiery soul which his self-contained manner so cleverly concealed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 215 · C1
Rachel undauntedly, head up, eyes blazing, hands clenched, passionate indignation exhaling from her like an atmosphere.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 65 · C1
As much as she hated Gilbert, however, did she love Diana, with all the love of her passionate little heart, equally intense in its likes and dislikes.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 123 · C1
He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 2 · B2

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