All 18 Uses of
impetuous
in
Middlemarch
- "No" said Mr. Casaubon, not keeping pace with Mr. Brooke's impetuous reason, and thinking of the book only.†
Chpt 1impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- she burst forth in her most impetuous manner.
Chpt 1 *
- "There is nothing that I like in him," said Dorothea, rather impetuously.†
Chpt 1impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- As to women, he had once already been drawn headlong by impetuous folly, which he meant to be final, since marriage at some distant period would of course not be impetuous.†
Chpt 2impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- As to women, he had once already been drawn headlong by impetuous folly, which he meant to be final, since marriage at some distant period would of course not be impetuous.†
Chpt 2
- For those who want to be acquainted with Lydgate it will be good to know what was that case of impetuous folly, for it may stand as an example of the fitful swerving of passion to which he was prone, together with the chivalrous kindness which helped to make him morally lovable.†
Chpt 2
- "He's a cursed white-blooded pedantic coxcomb," said Will, with gnashing impetuosity.†
Chpt 2impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- "I call that the fanaticism of sympathy," said Will, impetuously.†
Chpt 2impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- —she went on, clasping her hands, with a return to that more childlike impetuous manner, which had been subdued since her marriage.†
Chpt 4impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- "That is a dreadful imprisonment," said Will, impetuously.†
Chpt 4impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- "That is of no consequence," said Dorothea, breaking in impetuously.†
Chpt 5
- Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance.†
Chpt 6impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- With those words uttered impetuously, Will rose, put out his hand to Rosamond, still with the air of a somnambulist, and went away.†
Chpt 6impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- No third person listening could have thoroughly understood the impetuosity of Will's repulse or the bitterness of his words.†
Chpt 6impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- "Yes," said Will, impetuously, shaking his head backward, and looking away from her with irritation in his face.†
Chpt 6impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- Dorothea's impetuous generosity, which would have leaped at once to the vindication of Lydgate from the suspicion of having accepted money as a bribe, underwent a melancholy check when she came to consider all the circumstances of the case by the light of Mr. Farebrother's experience.†
Chpt 8impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- At last he turned towards her and said impetuously— "Why should I not tell you?†
Chpt 8impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- "But I have felt worse—it was worse to think ill—" Dorothea had begun impetuously, but broke off.†
Chpt 8
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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(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.