All 33 Uses
impetuous
in
The Ramayana
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- Their strength could shake the hills amain, And rend the rooted trees in twain, Disturb with their impetuous sweep The Rivers' Lord, the Ocean deep, Rend with their feet the seated ground, And pass wide floods with airy bound, Or forcing through the sky their way The very clouds by force could stay.†
Book 1impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
- Soon as he viewed, upon the shore, The bark prepared to waft them o'er Impetuous Gangá's rolling tide, To Lakshma?†
Book 2
- With Sítá there shalt thou delight To gaze upon the woody height; There with expanding heart to look On river, table-land, and brook, And see the foaming torrent rave Impetuous from the mountain cave.†
Book 2
- First from the wound extract the dart That kills me with its deadly smart, E'en as the flushed impetuous tide Eats through the river's yielding side.†
Book 2
- Like a great bridge the floods have rent, Impetuous in their wild descent, All other hands but thine in vain Would strive the burthen to maintain.†
Book 2 *
- The night that flies no more returns: Yamuná for the Ocean yearns: Swift her impetuous waters flee, But roll not backward from the sea.†
Book 2
- Winged by this arm's impetuous might My shaft with deadly force The monster in the chest shall smite, And fell his shattered corse.†
Book 3
- Impetuous, cruel, dark, and dread, All thirsting for the fray, The hosts of giant warriors sped Onward upon their way.†
Book 3
- (482) Or all its plains and cities drown, Breaking the wild sea's barrier down; Crush the great deep's impetuous will, Or bid the furious wind be still†
Book 3
- justly dear, In gifts and warrior might his peer, Serves his great brother with the whole Devotion of his faithful soul: Impetuous victor, bold and wise, First in each hardy enterprise, Still ready by his side to stand, A second self or better hand.†
Book 3
- What sudden thought, what urgent need Has brought thee with impetuous speed?†
Book 3
- By pride of conscious strength beguiled, I scorned him as a feeble child, And rushed with an impetuous bound On Visvámitra's holy ground.†
Book 3
- For he, in might supremely great, The giant world could extirpate, Since, when impetuous Khara sought The grove of Janasthán and fought For Súrpa?†
Book 3
- He burned his demon foe to slay, And rushed impetuous to the fray.†
Book 4
- Forth came impetuous Báli, stirred To fury by the shout he heard.†
Book 4
- To him whose eyes with fury shone, In charge impetuous rushing on, Skilled in each warlike art and plan, Báli with hasty words began: "My ponderous hand, to fight addressed With fingers clenched and arm compressed Shall on thy death doomed brow descend And, crashing down, thy life shall end."†
Book 4
- Full is the moon, and fierce and strong Impetuous Sarjú(628) roars along As though Ayodhyá's crowds ran out To greet their king with echoing shout.†
Book 4
- Beyond the moat that girt the wall Advanced the Vánar chiefs; and all Upon the plain in firm brigade, Impetuous warriors, stood arrayed.†
Book 4
- A countless host his city fills, New-gathered from a thousand hills: Impetuous chiefs, who wear at need Each varied form, his legions lead.†
Book 4
- Yet all my legions will I bring, And follow close the warrior king Marching on his impetuous way Fierce Ráva?†
Book 4
- Impetuous from the northern skies, Where Mount Kailása's summits rise, Ten hundred millions hasted, hued Like manes of lions, ne'er subdued: The dwellers on Himálaya's side, Whose food his roots and fruit supplied, With rangers of the Vindhyan chain And neighbours of the Milky Main.†
Book 4
- Then, lion-shouldered, stout and strong, The noblest of the Vánar throng, Angad the prince imperial rose, And, deeply stricken by the woes That his impetuous spirit broke, Thus gently to the chieftains spoke: "Mark ye not, Vánars, that the day Our monarch fixed has passed away?†
Book 4
- Thus the impetuous chieftain cried, And Jámbaván the sage replied: "Whate'er thy power and might may be, This task, O Prince, is not for thee.†
Book 4
- I too, O chieftain, know thee well; Three worlds thy famous virtues tell; And none, I ween, with thee may vie Who spring impetuous through the sky.†
Book 5
- Forth went the seven in brave attire, In glory brilliant as the fire, Impetuous chiefs with massive bows, The quellers of a host of foes: Trained from their youth in martial lore, And masters of the arms they bore: Each emulous and fiercely bold, And banners wrought with glittering gold Waved o'er their chariots, drawn at speed By coursers of the noblest breed.†
Book 5
- as his fury burned, His eyes on youthful Aksha(877) turned, Who rose impetuous at his glance And shouted for his bow and lance.†
Book 5
- He ceased; and spurred by warlike pride The impetuous son of Raghu cried: "Soon shall mine arm with wrathful joy That city of the foe destroy.†
Book 6
- s impetuous might, And Vegadarsí's piercing sight, And Jámbaván whom bears revere, Illustrious three, shall guard the rear.†
Book 6
- Then, brandishing the mace he bore, Whose horrid spikes were stained with gore, While fury made his eyeballs red, Impetuous Vajradansh?†
Book 6
- Let Rishabh of impetuous might Be lord and leader on the right, And Gandhamádan, next in rank, Be captain of the farther flank.†
Book 6
- Strong as the sea's impetuous might My ways are like the tempest's flight; But Ráma knows not this, or he In terror from my face would flee.†
Book 6
- followed, next in place, The sovereign of the Vánar race, And hundreds of the forest kind Thronged with impetuous feet, behind.†
Book 6
- Then as some monster of the sea Cleaves swift-advancing billows, he Charged with impetuous onset through The foe, and cleft the host in two.†
Book 6
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) In historic literature, impetuous often refers to any rapid, forceful, and/or violent movement.