All 4 Uses of
impetuous
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Impetuous fellow!
Chpt 13 *impetuous = impulsive (to act suddenly without much thought)
- —Spaniards, for instance, he continued, passionate temperaments like that, impetuous as Old Nick, are given to taking the law into their own hands and give you your quietus doublequick with those poignards they carry in the abdomen.†
Chpt 16impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- —Then, Stephen said staring and rambling on to himself or some unknown listener somewhere, we have the impetuosity of Dante and the isosceles triangle miss Portinari he fell in love with and Leonardo and san Tommaso Mastino.†
Chpt 16impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- Though that half-baked Lyons ran off at a tangent in his impetuosity to get left.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(impetuous as in: an impetuous decision) impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought) -- often with an unfortunate consequence
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In historic literature, impetuous often refers to any rapid, forceful, and/or violent movement.