passion
/ˈpæʃən/ noun B1- A true desire sustained or prolonged.
- Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate. · We share a passion for books.
- Fervor, determination. · I spoke with a burning passion.
- An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest. · It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.
- Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional. · We shared a night of passion.
- The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
- A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Plural passions
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A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.
Everyone, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place on the social ladder, and is beset by stormy passions and conflicting interests, as in Descartes’ theory of pressure and impulsion.
The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a minute.
Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going on, as she heard the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with passion.
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