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mispassion

mispassion noun: wrong passion or feeling.

Noun

mispassion (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Wrong passion or feeling.
    • But I say unto you, that not only the outward act of murder is a breach of the law, but the inward mispassion of the heart also: […]a. 1657 (date written), Joseph Hall, “St. Matthew.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. […], volume IV (Paraphrase on Hard Texts, […]), London...
    • I thought back to my father’s manual and the line drawings of body parts. I thought of my bosses and lost boyfriends, of passion and mispassion. Then I told her the truth, about penises and where they fit into women, about eggs and sperm and embryos.1994, Julia Whitty, “The Daguerreotype”, in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, volume 15, number 2, page 93

Origin of mispassion

From mis- + passion.

Questions about mispassion

What does mispassion mean?
Mispassion means wrong passion or feeling.
What part of speech is mispassion?
Mispassion is a noun.

Words near mispassion in the dictionary

  1. mispart
  2. misparted
  3. misparting
  4. misparts
  5. mispass
  6. mispassion
  7. mispaste
  8. mispasted
  9. mispastes
  10. mispasting
  11. mispatch

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