Careful Words

passionate (v.)

passionate (adj.)

One in whom persuasion and belief

Had ripened into faith, and faith become

A passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book iv.

  Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato. . . . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

John Milton (1608-1674): Tractate of Education.