All 13 Uses of
impetuous
in
The Mill on the Floss
- The Mill on the Floss George Eliot Chapter I Outside Dorlcote Mill A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.†
Chpt 1.1impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- From what you know of her, you will not be surprised that she threw some exaggeration and wilfulness, some pride and impetuosity, even into her self-renunciation; her own life was still a drama for her, in which she demanded of herself that her part should be played with intensity.†
Chpt 4.3impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- "No more am I," said Philip, impetuously; "I am not happy."†
Chpt 5.1impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- I know what you mean about music; I feel so," said Maggie, clasping her hands with her old impetuosity.†
Chpt 5.1impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- "Has it made you hate me, Maggie?" said Philip, impetuously.†
Chpt 5.4impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- "I deny that," interrupted Philip, impetuously.†
Chpt 5.5
- He had naturally an active Hotspur temperament, which did not crave liquid fire to set it aglow; his impetuosity was usually equal to an exciting occasion without any such reinforcements; and his desire for the brandy-and-water implied that the too sudden joy had fallen with a dangerous shock on a frame depressed by four years of gloom and unaccustomed hard fare.†
Chpt 5.7impetuosity = impulsiveness (the trait of acting suddenly without much thought)
- The bitterness had taken on some impetuosity as Philip went on speaking; the words were evidently an outlet for some immediate feeling of his own, as well as an answer to Maggie.†
Chpt 6.7
- "Leave me to myself, if you please," she said, with impetuous haughtiness, "and for the future avoid me."
Chpt 6.10 *impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- "Yes, it is of use," said Stephen, impetuously.†
Chpt 6.11impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
- Then he burst out impetuously,— "It is unnatural, it is horrible.†
Chpt 6.11
- "The pledge can't be fulfilled," he said, with impetuous insistence.†
Chpt 6.11impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- "We can't part, Maggie," said Stephen, more impetuously.†
Chpt 6.14impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
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.