Latin

Adverb

impensē ‎(comparable impensius, superlative impensissimē)

1. eagerly, persistently

Quotations

• 1832, Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos

  Impense id iam commendarat suis ad vos litteris felicis recordationis praedecessor noster Pius VIII;

• 1861, Pius IX, Iamdudum cernimus

  Atque ab Ipso impensissime exposcimus, ut […] inter densas tenebras, quibus universa terra fuit obducta, inimicorum suorum mentes illustravit.

Participle

impēnse

1. vocative masculine singular of impēnsus

References

• impense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• impense in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “impense”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.