impassionateness

I may not but conjecture that Doctor Hamond is better learned in this kinde of ſcience then my ſelf, having vantage ground of me in years, ſtudy and experience, and yet he hath gone farther in diſcovering himſelf, and his paſſions then thus, in his Vindication againſt E. P. and (contrary to his profeſſed impaſſionateneſs) hath ſo far betrayed himſelf, as to tranſmit the Image and Character of the perturbation and paſſionate heat of his ſpirit, by his Pen, to the view of the world, as his ſaid Vindication will manifeſtly teſtify.

1650, [Anthony Ascham], “The Introduction”, in An Answer to the Vindication of Doctor Hamond, against the Exceptions of Eutactus Philodemius. […], London: […] Francis Tyton, […], page 1

For being engaged to make Reflexions on that part of his Book which is of leaſt importance, writen in an immodeſt, uncivill, petulant ſtile, it was not fitt in my Answer to mingle conſiderations on a Subiect ſo ſerious, and ſoberly expreſſed as his Principles are, which indeed deſerve to be examined ſeparately with all poſſible calmness and impaſſionateness, as being an Argument on which all other Controverſies do depend, and which one way or other makes an end of them all.

1672, S[erenus] C[ressy], “The Authours Motive of Writing this Treatise. Doctour Stillingfleets three Heads of Accusation against the Catholick Church, &c.”, in Fanaticism Fanatically Imputed to the Catholick Church by Doctour Stillingfleet: and the Imputation Refuted and Retorted […], [Douay?]: [s.n.], paragraph 8, pages 8–9

It is chiefly in Paul’s letters to Timothy and Titus that we find the requisites for this work enumerated, and there we note about twenty specific attributes of character, as follows: […] 18. Impassionateness. “Not angry” is the reverse of irascibility or fretfulness. A wrathful shepherd is a moral anomaly.

1860, Ed[itor] [i.e., Thomas Hughes Milner], “Pastorate.—No. iv.”, in The Christian Advocate: A Monthly Magazine to Plead for an Unqualified Return to the Faith Once for All Delivered to the Saints, volume IV, Edinburgh: Kerr, […], pages 189–190

Offer frankincense of the twenty-five essences of nature, and present the flowers of harmlessness, of intelligence, of forbearance, of mercy, of contentment, of knowledge, unenviousness, of non-illusiveness, of pridelessness, of impassionateness, of uninimicalness, and of the twelve organs of the body.

1871, Prata´pachandra Ghosha, Durga Puja: With Notes and Illustrations, Calcutta: […] [T]he “Hindoo Patriot” Press […], page 36

Deficiency of temper, on the other hand, whatever it be called—whether a species of impassionateness or what not, is censurable. Those whose anger is never roused against objects which deserve it, are thought to be fools, as are they also who are never incensed as they should be, nor when they should be, nor at things at which they should be. Such an one seems to have no proper feeling nor sense of pain: if he shows no anger, he is thought incapable of self-defence.

1879, Aristotle, translated by Walter M. Hatch, The Moral Philosophy of Aristotle: Consisting of a Translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, and of the Paraphrase Attributed to Andronicus of Rhodes, with an Introductory Analysis of Each Book; […], London: John Murray, […], page 223

But every succeeding piece assumed with Liszt a more pronounced character, and more exhibited the cloven foot, as it were, of Genius. What Bizarrérie is their in the recital on the “Tarentella!” What humour, caprice, intricacy, and impassionateness, and fire and glowing—all, however, superfused by the higher principle of rule, order, and system.

1845 June 5, J. L⁠⸺⁠y, “Liszt the Concertist”, in The Musical World, volume XX, number 23, London, page 269, column 1

He looked backward to the sweet simplicity of Edith’s character; he looked forward with that high anticipation with which man’s impassionateness invests the objects of our earthly adoration.

1851, B[enjamin] Clarke, chapter XIV, in Conviction. A Tale. […], volume III, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], page 156

This Journal leavens our present literature, though the fact is little known, and less acknowledged. Writers are still amongst us whose intellects were informed and directed by its pages: the labours of many more are bestowed on fields of activity which, (unconsciously to them,) its author made intelligible for sources of use and beauty, and the benign impassionateness with which they are imbued greatly owes its literary parentage to him.

1878, Launcelot Cross [pseudonym; Frank Carr], “A Typical Literary Periodical”, in Characteristics of Leigh Hunt, as Exhibited in That Typical Literary Periodical, “Leigh Hunt’s London Journal” (1834-35). […], London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., page 38

[T]he time soon arrives when the soul recognizes that by the side of the Prince of Light there also dwells the Prince of Darkness; that not only is there in the Universe a great God the Good, but also a great Devil the Evil; and with the impetuosity and impassionateness of youth it gives itself up to lamentation, to indignation.

1889, Ivan Panin, “Introductory”, in Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy, New York, N.Y.; London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, paragraph 3, page 3