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unˈpassionate, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7, 5 b.
Common from c 1600 to c 1660.]
1. Not influenced or swayed by passion or strong feeling; calm, self-possessed:
a. Of persons, disposition, etc.
1593Sidney's Arcadia (1598) 439 That well appeased gesture, vnpassionate nature bestoweth vpon mankind. 1604T. Wright Passions ii. i. 56 That which an vnpassionate mind detested, a passionate soule most effectually pursueth. 1673Cave Prim. Chr. ii. i. 5 We are to be of a meek and unpassionate mind. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 188 True wisdom..is ever cool and unpassionate when she takes a resolution. 1852M. Arnold Summer Night 80 Ye Heavens, whose pure dark regions..though so great Are yet untroubled and unpassionate.
b. Of actions, feelings, etc.
a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. v. §4 A calm, unpassionate, and just assignation of dreadful punishment. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 532 Gods unpassionate and unaltering anger. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 48 A prettie and unpassionate replie, that a Steward once made to his angri Lord. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. ix. 29/1 He did with a very Unpassionate Aspect and Carriage then say, Friends, I thank you all.
†2. Unprejudiced, impartial. Obs.
1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 6 But whether it be reason..I leaue it to the iudgment of any indifferent & vnpassionate man. a1648Digby Priv. Mem. (1827) 243, I am sure you will say, who are yet an indifferent and unpassionate judge, that [etc.]. |