passion /pashˈn/

1. Strong feeling or agitation of mind, esp rage, often sorrow
2. A fit of such feeling, esp rage
3. An expression or outburst of such feeling
4. Ardent love
5. Sexual desire
6. An enthusiastic interest or direction of the mind
7. The object of such a feeling
8. (usu with cap) the sufferings (esp on the Cross) and death of Christ
9. An account of this from one of the gospels
10. A musical setting of this
11. Martyrdom
12. Suffering
13. A painful bodily ailment (such as iliac passion)
14. The fact, condition, or manner of being acted upon
15. Passivity (philosophy)
16. A passive quality

To imbue with passion

To exhibit passion

passˈional adjective

Of or relating to the sufferings of a Christian martyr

passˈional or passˈionary noun

A book of the sufferings of saints and martyrs

passˈionate adjective

1. Moved by passion
2. Showing strong and warm feeling
3. Easily moved to passion
4. Intense, fervid
5. Compassionate (Shakespeare)
6. Moving to compassion (Spenser)

1. To express with passion
2. To imbue with passion, to impassion

passˈionately adverb

passˈionateness noun

passˈioned adjective

1. Moved by passion
2. Expressing passion
3. Expressed with passion

Passˈionist noun

A member of a Roman Catholic congregation devoted to the commemoration of the Passion of Christ by missions, etc

passˈionless adjective

1. Free from or lacking passion, esp sexual desire
2. Not easily excited to anger

passion flower noun

1. Any flower or plant of the genus Passiflora, consisting mostly of climbers of tropical and warm temperate America, from a fancied resemblance of parts of the flower to the crown of thorns, nails, and other emblems of Christ's Passion
2. The plant itself

passion fruit noun

Any edible fruit of a passion flower, esp the granadilla

Passˈion-mūˈsic noun

Music to which words describing the sufferings and death of Christ are set

passion play noun

A religious drama representing the sufferings and death of Christ

Passion Sunday noun

The fifth Sunday in Lent

Passˈiontide noun

The two weeks preceding Easter

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