passions (noun)

  • 21scope — noun 1 opportunity ADJECTIVE ▪ full ▪ In her new house she had full scope for her passion for gardening. ▪ ample, considerable, enormous, great, huge …

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  • 22impulse — noun 1) she had an impulse to run and hide Syn: urge, instinct, drive, compulsion, itch; whim, desire, fancy, notion, inclination, temptation 2) passions provide the main impulse of poetry Syn …

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  • 23Caligula — noun Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12 41) • Syn: ↑Gaius, ↑Gaius Caesar • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Roman Emperor, ↑Emperor of… …

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  • 24Gaius — noun Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12 41) • Syn: ↑Caligula, ↑Gaius Caesar • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Roman Emperor, ↑Emperor of …

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  • 25Gaius Caesar — noun Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12 41) • Syn: ↑Caligula, ↑Gaius • Instance Hypernyms: ↑Roman Emperor, ↑Emperor of Rome …

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  • 26rabble-rouser — noun a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices • Syn: ↑demagogue, ↑demagog • Hypernyms: ↑politician, ↑politico, ↑pol, ↑political leader …

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  • 27animal soul — noun 1. : the soul that in the scholastic tradition is characteristic of an animal and has sensitive, appetitive, and locomotive faculties and controls a more developed form of vital activity than the lower vegetable soul but has no independent… …

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  • 28hotblood — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun : one that is hotblooded: as a. : one having strong passions or a quick temper b. : thoroughbred 1b …

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  • 29Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …

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  • 30Eastern Orthodox Church — Orthodox Catholic Church and Orthodox Christian Church redirect here. For other uses of the term, see Orthodox (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Oriental Orthodox Churches. See also: Eastern Christianity and Orthodoxy by country The… …

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