Fervornoun
(American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
‘The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.’;
Passionnoun
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.
‘We share a passion for books.’;
Fervornoun
(American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
Passionnoun
Fervor, determination.
Fervornoun
(American spelling) Heat.
Passionnoun
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.’;
Fervornoun
Heat; excessive warmth.
‘The fevor of ensuing day.’;
Passionnoun
sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional
‘We shared a night of passion.’;
Fervornoun
Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness.
‘Winged with fervor of her love.’;
Passionnoun
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Fervornoun
feelings of great warmth and intensity;
‘he spoke with great ardor’;
Passionnoun
A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Fervornoun
the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up;
‘his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled’; ‘he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation’;
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
‘a cardiac passion’;
Passionnoun
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.
Passionnoun
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
‘He will again be well: if much you note him,
You shall offend him and extend his passion:’;
Passionverb
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passionverb
(transitive) To give a passionate character to.
Passionnoun
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.
‘To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs.’;
Passionnoun
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
‘A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.’;
Passionnoun
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
‘Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.’;
Passionnoun
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.
‘We also are men of like passions with you.’; ‘The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.’; ‘The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste - a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything.’; ‘The bravery of his grief did put meInto a towering passion.’; ‘The ruling passion, be it what it will,The ruling passion conquers reason still.’; ‘Who walked in every path of human life,Felt every passion.’; ‘When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.’;
Passionnoun
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passionnoun
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
Passionverb
To give a passionate character to.
Passionverb
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passionnoun
strong feeling or emotion
Passionnoun
intense passion or emotion
Passionnoun
something that is desired intensely;
‘his rage for fame destroyed him’;
Passionnoun
an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Passionnoun
a feeling of strong sexual desire
Passionnoun
any object of warm affection or devotion;
‘the theater was her first love’; ‘he has a passion for cock fighting’;
Passionnoun
the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
Passionnoun
strong and barely controllable emotion
‘a man of impetuous passion’;
Passionnoun
a state or outburst of strong emotion
‘oratory in which he gradually works himself up into a passion’;
Passionnoun
intense sexual love
‘their all-consuming passion for each other’; ‘she nurses a passion for Thomas’;
Passionnoun
an intense desire or enthusiasm for something
‘the English have a passion for gardens’;
Passionnoun
a thing arousing great enthusiasm
‘modern furniture is a particular passion of Bill's’;
Passionnoun
the suffering and death of Jesus
‘meditations on the Passion of Christ’;
Passionnoun
an account of the Passion from any of the Gospels.
Passionnoun
a musical setting of any of the biblical accounts of the Passion
‘an aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion’;
