passional

American  

[pash-uh-nl] / ˈpæʃ ə nl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or marked by passion.

2. caused or accompanied by passion.

   a passional crime.

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noun

1. a book containing descriptions of the sufferings of saints and martyrs, for reading on their festivals.

passional British  

/ ˈpæʃənəl /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or due to passion or the passions

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noun

1. a book recounting the sufferings of Christian martyrs or saints

Other Word Forms

• transpassional
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of passional

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Medieval Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al ¹; noun derivative of the adjective

Example Sentences

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passional

But the pursuit of beauty, the attainment by "great souls" of the maximum "passional love," still seemed to him "the wonder of civilization."

From Time Magazine Archive

After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence!

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

How apparent it was that our songbirds— Our Emerson, Lowell, and Payne, And Bryant and Drake—were the wrong birds To pipe to the passional strain.

From A line-o'-verse or two by Taylor, Bert Leston

This sends out its Ray, which becomes encased in grosser matter, in the desire body, or kâmic elements, the passional nature, and in the etheric double and the physical body.

From Death—and After? by Besant, Annie Wood

Hence you must avoid all rash and hasty tendencies and eschew disputes and quarrels, for the least excitement is apt to arouse the passional nature to its fullest expression.

From Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration by Coffman, C. J.