[ˈpaʃn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- strong and barely controllable emotion
(e.g: a man of impetuous passion)

- an intense desire or enthusiasm for something
(e.g: the English have a passion for gardens)

- intense sexual love
(e.g: their all-consuming passion for each other)

- the suffering and death of Jesus
(e.g: meditations on the Passion of Christ)


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Origin:
Old English passion, from Latin passio(n-) (chiefly a term in Christian theology), from pati ‘suffer’; subsequently reinforced by Old French