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Definition of Passional
1. a. Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions.
Definition of Passional
1. Noun. a book describing sufferings of martyrs ¹
2. Adjective. characterized by passion ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Passional
1. [n -S]
Literary usage of Passional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier, John Reynell Morell, Hugh Doherty (1851)
"CHAPTER I. OF THE passional DELIGHTS, OB OF THE DISTRIBUTIVES RAISED IN POWER.
... the meaning is, passional delight, exhilaration, or flitting raptures. ..."
2. Delsarte System of Oratory: Including the Complete Works of M. L'abbe by Delaumosne, Angélique Arnaud, François Delsarte (1887)
"passional Respiration. The source of passional respiration lies in the agitation
of the heart. The effect of respiration is most powerful, for the slighter ..."
3. Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals: A Study in Mental and Social Evolution by Frederick Morgan Davenport (1905)
"... CHAPTER XIII THE passional AND THE RATIONAL IN RELIGION We have long grown
accustomed to thinking of the body of man as a product of evolution. ..."
4. The Art-idea: Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture in America by James Jackson Jarves (1865)
"... the passional Unrest of the Artistic. — Analysis of Causes and Results.— What
Science can do. — Legitimate Sources. — Highest Art. — What Cultivation ..."
5. In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1899)
"A passional Karma ONE of the never-failing attractions of the Tokyo stage is the
performance, by the famous ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"... phase are usually steadily maintained for several minutes, thereby varying
essentially from the grand movements of the Fig. 261.—passional attitude of ..."
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