See impetuous on Wiktionary
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"text": "For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.",
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"text": "After being two days the prey of impetuous, varying emotions, Maria began to reflect more calmly on her present situation, for she had actually been rendered incapable of sober reflection, by the discovery of the act of atrocity of which she was the victim.",
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"text": "\"Oh! where, where is my uncle?\" cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat as she finished the letter, in eagerness to follow him, with-out losing a moment of the time so precious; but as she reached the door, it was opened by a servant, and Mr. Darcy appeared. Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start […]",
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"text": "Rough and impetuous as a wild boar, where only earthly force was to be apprehended, he had all the characteristic terrors of a Saxon respecting fawns, forest-fiends, white women, and the whole of the superstitions which his ancestors had brought with them from the wilds of Germany.",
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},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "thoúrios",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "θούριος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "thoûros",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "θοῦρος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "indulatos"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "irruente"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "totoa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "taikaha"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "oppfarende"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "fremfusende"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "brysk"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "impetuós"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "impetuoso"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "brusco"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "impetuos"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "porývistyj",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "поры́вистый"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stremítelʹnyj",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "стреми́тельный"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "prudký"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "impetuoso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "brutal"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "brusco"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "violento"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "mapusok"
},
{
"code": "yo",
"lang": "Yoruba",
"sense": "characterized by sudden and violent force",
"word": "oníwàdùwàdù"
}
],
"word": "impetuous"
}
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