passions (noun)

  • 41India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …

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  • 42elevation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of raising Nouns 1. elevation; raising, lifting, erection; upheaval, uplift; exaltation, apotheosis, deification (see deity). Informal, heave, hike, boost. See angularity, vertical. 2. (elevated… …

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  • 43courage — [13] Modern English uses heart as a metaphor for ‘innermost feelings or passions’, but this is nothing new. Vulgar Latin took the Latin word cor ‘heart’ and derived from it *corāticum, a noun with just this sense. Borrowed into English via Old… …

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  • 44courage — [13] Modern English uses heart as a metaphor for ‘innermost feelings or passions’, but this is nothing new. Vulgar Latin took the Latin word cor ‘heart’ and derived from it *corāticum, a noun with just this sense. Borrowed into English via Old… …

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  • 45pas|sion|al — «PASH uh nuhl», adjective, noun. –adj. of or having to do with passion or the passions: »passional crimes. –n. a book containing accounts of the sufferings (passions) of saints and martyrs, for reading on their festival days …

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  • 46Conditional preservation of the saints — The Five Articles of Remonstrance Conditional election Unlimited atonement Total depravity …

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  • 47Aristotle — /ar euh stot l/, n. 384 322 B.C., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great. * * * born 384, Stagira died 322 BC, Chalcis Greek philosopher and scientist whose thought determined the course of Western intellectual history… …

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  • 48Aristotle: Aesthetics and philosophy of mind — David Gallop AESTHETICS Aesthetics, as that field is now understood, does not form the subjectmatter of any single Aristotelian work. No treatise is devoted to such topics as the essential nature of a work of art, the function of art in general,… …

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  • 49warm — /wɔm / (say wawm) adjective 1. having or communicating a moderate degree of heat, as perceptible to the senses. 2. of or at a moderately high temperature; characterised by comparatively high temperature: a warm climate. 3. having a sensation of… …

  • 50phrenesis — /fri nēˈsis/ noun 1. Phrenitis 2. Delirium 3. Frenzy ORIGIN: Gr phrēn, phrenos midriff (supposed seat of passions, mind and will) For phrenetic, phrenetical, and phrenetically see frenetic phrenˈism noun A supposed ‘mind force’ described by ED… …

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