emotion

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If he tries to start out a holy emotion, he finds a sinful emotion already beating and rankling,--and this emotion is his emotion, unforced, responsible, and guilty.

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  1. noun A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.
  2. noun A state of mental agitation or disturbance: spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion. See Synonyms at feeling.
  3. noun The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility: "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect” (Isaac Bashevis Singer).

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  • Yet all this emotion is attained in the most quiet and unobtrusive manner. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
  • Campion started at it and his emotion was at least half disappointment. —  Death of a Ghost - Margery Allingham - Campion 06
  • Decades, if not generations, had passed Resignation and sorrow rose in him like a tide; I could not tell how much of the emotion was his and how much belonged to Lisana's shade. —  Robin Hobb
  • Otherwise, her story, her characters, and the emotion are all well done and very enjoyable.
  • "In an intellectual sense, The Duchess of Langeais comes to a devastating place, but the emotion is a little absent," writes —  GreenCine Daily
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emotion:   emotions
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  1. French émotion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French émotion = Spanish emocion = Portuguese emoção = Italian emozione, from Latin as if *emotio(n-), from emotus, past participle of emovere, move out, move away, remove, stir up, agitate: see emove.
 

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/əˈmoʊʃən/
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