PASSION
\pˈaʃən], \pˈaʃən], \p_ˈa_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PASSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
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Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
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The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
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Disorder of the mind; madness.
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Passion week. See Passion week, below.
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To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
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The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
By Oddity Software
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A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
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Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
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The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
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Disorder of the mind; madness.
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To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
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The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
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week. See week, below.
By Noah Webster.
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A flt of violent anger; intense feeling or excitement; love; ardor. Passion, the sufferings of Christ in his last agonies.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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Strong feeling or agitation of mind, esp. rage: ardent love: eager desire: state of the soul when receiving an impression: endurance of an effect, as opposed to action: the sufferings, esp. the death of Christ:-pl. excited conditions of mind.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Intense feeling; strong emotion or impulse.
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Suffering; agony.
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The suffering of Christ in Gethsemane and on the cross.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Effect produced by external agency; state of being acted upon; extreme suffering, specially that of Christ at last; any strong, deep feeling or excitement, such as desire, fear, joy, grief, love, hatred; ardour; eager desire.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Violent excitement and agitation of mind in anger; anger; love; eager or vehement desire; the passion, the sufferings of Christ Jesus between the last supper and His death.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Latin] A suffering or enduring;—specifically, the suffering or crucifixion and death of the Saviour;—any condition of the soul in which it is conceived to be passive under the influence of the object; the capacity for emotion;—hence strong feeling prompting to action; specifically, anger; wrath;—love; ardent affection; fondness;—eager desire; controlling inclination;—hence, the object of love, fondness, ardent inclination, or the like.
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