passionative

comparative more passionative · superlative most passionative

1. archaicRelating to passionate or impassioned speech or gesture.

   Passionative gestures express all highly wrought and uncontrolled excitements, such as anger, rage, fury […]

   1870, The American Educational Monthly, volume 7, page 22

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   And under the use of all the expressive powers of quality, time, force, abruptness and pitch, the vivid character of the passionative.

   1859, James Rush, The Philosophy of the Human Voice, page 486