Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being affected with passion; the act of giving vent to passion; a passionate utterance or expression.

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  • verb Present participle of passion.

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Examples

  • MCEDWARDS: And the European Union launches a satellite to challenge the U.S. global passioning system.

    CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2005 2005

  • "Behold us then, Miss Lovel, passioning --" said the Navy.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And with her would be my aunt and uncles to wonder also and shake grave heads over me, torturing me with their love while in my consciousness gnawed this undying horror that, like a demon raged within me, passioning for utterance, insomuch that day or night I had dreaded lest I babble the obscenities that haunted me.

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Abel was a man of grace, Bible-taught, passioning for service, but within him his gentle soul burned to travel, and his white horse, Major Mary, and his road wagon and his route to the door of many a country church were the sole satisfactions of his wanderlust; and next to these was his delight to be at a railway station when any train arrived, savouring the moment of some silent familiarity with distance.

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • Within was youth's blind tumult and longing, a passioning for he knew not what.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • Verona_, act iv. last scene — “Madam, ’twas Ariadne passioning,” &c.

    Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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