passional

[pash-uh-nl]

adjective

of, relating to, or marked by passion.

caused or accompanied by passion: a passional crime.

noun

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

Origin of passional

1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin passiōnālis, equivalent to Late Latin passiōn- passion + Latin -ālis -al¹; (noun) < Medieval Latin passiōnāle, noun use of neuter of passiōnālis

Related formstrans·pas·sion·al, adjective

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Examples from the Web for passional

Historical Examples of passional

Let us now pass to that part of the soul that is called the "passional" (or, affective).
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2
Plotinos (Plotinus)
Passional changes in body, not in passional part of soul, iii.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4
Plotinos (Plotinus)
And so she sacrificed her “passional” nature to her moral ideal.
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2
Edward Tyas Cook
Hervieu's heroine is passional, and it accounts for her lapse.
Iconoclasts
James Huneker
There was a determined shackling of all the passional nature.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865
Various

British Dictionary definitions for passional

passional

adjective

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

noun

a book recounting the sufferings of Christian martyrs or saints

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