Word Finder - passion

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Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.

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We share a passion for books.

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Fervor, determination.

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An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

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It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.

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Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

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We shared a night of passion.

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(usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.

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A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.

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Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

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a cardiac passion

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The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

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The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

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An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.

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[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.

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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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To give a passionate character to.

Jackson possessed a true passion for music.

There was a passion about her.

His dominating passion is his love for children.

Her passion for writing letters and putting her thoughts upon paper grows more intense.

I owe this passion to my high school friend Jason.

She held herself as erect, told everyone her opinion as candidly, loudly, and bluntly as ever, and her whole bearing seemed a reproach to others for any weakness, passion, or temptation--the possibility of which she did not admit.

At first she was too stunned to respond, and then passion hit her like the fiery breath of a dragon.

There was passion and a deep longing she innately understood only she was able to fill.

The passion welling up in him was palpable.

They released the heartache they had been holding in and were filled with unencumbered passion, melting into each other as they had the first time, but now neither held any secrets, and neither needed to maintain control.

When his hands found her waist and drew her close, passion came without warning, completely consuming her body and soul.

She'd wanted a second night with him since the first, and the passion of his kiss reminded her of how incredible it was to be the center of his world.

I admire your spirit and your passion.

He has a passion for giving audiences, but he does not like talking himself and can't do it, as you will see.

It was the passion of full arousal.

She wasn't going to fall under the spell of Gabriel's strong body, his passion, his taste.

Pulling his head down, she met warm lips again and surrendered to the passion he always managed to arouse.

What lit that fire of passion wasn't the romancing – or at least if it did, romance wore a different face for her.

The kiss started out playful, but passion put an end to that.

It turns out that, even when doing what you love, both passion and profit matter—but that particular piece of wisdom came later with age.

The limestone and marble foyer was lined with artifacts, a sign of Tamer's passion for all things ancient.

Don't mistake gratitude for passion.

She was to a considerable extent selftaught; and her love of reading made her acquainted first with Plutarch - a passion for which author she continued to cherish throughout her life - thereafter with Bossuet, Massillon, and authors of a like stamp, and finally with Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau.

The scene of the legend now shifts to Rome, where Diocletian falls in love with a lovely nun named Ripsime; she, rather than gratify his passion, flees with her abbess Gaiana and several priests to Armenia.

They're probably messing up the sheets in a fury of passion as we speak.

All this time they had waited, pushing away passion and desire.

When passion brought a moan to her lips, he finally lifted her into his arms and carried her to their bedroom.

His passion for wine and women was almost as well known as his learning.

Her heart beat double time as a wave of passion surged over her.

During this fast they abstain from the gratification of every appetite and passion whatever.

He wore her – a goddess! – out with his lovemaking and passion.

Apparently he mistook her breathless state as an indication of passion.

His kiss was ardent and she returned it with equal passion.

Yet she was always trying to conceal that passion.

Anger is a passion, Carmen.

Perhaps there is not another instance in history in which a man who was neither a soldier, nor a diplomatist, nor a writer, who appealed to no passion but patriotism, and who avoided power with almost oriental indolence instead of seeking it, became, in the course of a long life, the leader of a great party by sheer force of intellect and moral superiority.

His one passion was the chase.

Thence there grew upon him the passion of knowledge for its own sake.

Meanwhile his efforts were directed to soothe Miss Vanhomrigh, to whom he addressed Cadenus [Decanus] and' Vanessa, the history of their attachment and the best example of his serious poetry, and for whom he sought to provide honourably in marriage, without either succeeding in his immediate aim or in thereby opening her eyes to the hopelessness of her passion.

None could be procured; the public passion swept everything before it; the patent was cancelled; Wood was compensated by a pension; Swift was raised to a height of popularity which he retained for the rest of his life; and the only real sufferers were the Irish people, who lost a convenience so badly needed that they might well have afforded to connive at Wood's illicit profits.

This knowledge, as Aristotle held, might be permanently precluded by vicious habits, or temporarily obliterated by passion, but if present in the mind it must produce rightness of purpose.

Indeed, it is common for men to sacrifice to passion what they know to be their true interests; at the same time we do not consider such conduct " natural " in man as a rational being; we rather regard it as natural for him to govern his transient impulses.

Men of good birth (nearly always, too, of Celtic blood on one side at least), they leave Iceland young and attach themselves to the kings and earls of the north, living in their courts as their henchmen, sharing their adventures in weal and woe, praising their victories, and hymning their deaths if they did not fall by their sides - men of quick passion, unhappy in their loves, jealous of rival poets and of their own fame, ever ready to answer criticism with a satire or with a sword-thrust, but clinging through all to their art, in which they attained most marvellous skill.

In comparing the Irish tales with the saga, there will be felt deep divergencies in matter, style and taste, the richness of one contrasting with the chastened simplicity of the other; the one's half-comic, half-earnest bombast is wholly unlike the other's grim humour; the marvellous, so unearthly in the one, is almost credible in the other; but in both are the keen grasp of character, the biting phrase, the love of action and the delight in blood which almost assumes the garb of a religious passion.

France, like the Christ, had known all the bitterness and weakness of a Passion.

Indifferent in religious matters, she had a passion for authority, a characteristically Italian adroitness in intrigue, a fine political sense, and the feeling that the royal authority might be endangered both by Calvinistic passions and Catholic violence.

When the succession of Cleves and of Julich, so long expected and already discounted by the treaty of Halle (1610), was opened up in Germany, the great war was largely due to an access of senile passion for the charms of the princesse de Cond.

Thus, here as elsewhere, we see a vacillating hand-to-mouth policy, at the mercy of a passion for power or for sensual gratification.

He entered with a passion for Catholic scholasticism.

This was more than mere passion, rather a visceral need that threatened to overwhelm him.