mispassion

Definitions

Wrong passion or feeling.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“But I say⟳ unto you, that not only the outward act of murder⟳ is a breach of the law, but the inward mispassion of the heart also: […]”

“I thought back to my father’s manual and the line drawings of body parts. I thought of my bosses and lost boyfriends, of passion and mispassion. Then I told her the truth, about penises and where they fit into women, about eggs and sperm and embryos.”

“Hill believes that people do things either from a good set⟳ of motives like⟳ serving the customer fairly or a bad set⟳ of motives (which includes the motive of greed). Hill also tends to believe⟳ in a valid passion for business vs a fanatical mispassion which some business dictators tend⟳ to radiate.”

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