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impetuosity

[im-pech-oo-os-i-tee] / ɪmˌpɛtʃ uˈɒs ɪ ti /




















NOUN
vehemence
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A version of this review appears in print on February 15, 2014, on page C5 of the with the headline: After a Snowy Overnight Trek, That Velvety Sound, Accented by Impetuosity.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2014

Impetuosity startled even his trainer when he won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland two weeks ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impetuosity had to be chastened and disciplined into quiet self-control.

From Personal Friendships of Jesus by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

Tho' we must observe another Character in this Play seemed better suited to the Impetuosity and Fire of this Actor.

From Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch by Dempster, George

His Fire, Spirit, and Exuberance of Imagination gave an Impetuosity to his Pen: His Ideas flow’d from him in a Stream rapid, but not turbulent; copious, but not ever overbearing its Shores.

From Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) by Dick, Hugh G.