grand passion
Americannoun
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an intense or overwhelming attraction or love.
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the object of such feelings.
Etymology
Origin of grand passion
1925–30; translation of French grande passion
Example Sentences
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“I wonder if he realizes he’s been the one grand passion in both our lives,” Jane muses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
When he began his blog in 2011, Korotkov never dreamed it would grow into such a grand passion, or lead to trouble with the authorities.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
But she was a romantic at heart and her life’s grand passion was literature — worth all the poverty, sacrifice and burned bridges.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2021
Ann, who’s starring in a new opera at Disney Hall, embraces her character’s nightly demise with a grand passion that her audiences find cathartic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2021
How freely I write to you, seeing that you are blind and deaf, of that wish of a woman to be the one grand passion of a strong man’s life—above all—before even his country!
From The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman by Hough, Emerson
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