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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French crime passionnel.
Pronunciation
Noun
crime passionnel (plural crimes passionnels)
- A crime of passion, especially a murder committed from motives of jealousy.
2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 50:If, as she hinted, Dr Serrou had spent the night with Bachelet, the inexplicable brainstorm might have stemmed from a crime passionel.
2013, Nick Richardson, “Internet-Enabled”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 8:Stalking, a kind of crime passionnel, confuses our sympathies: how do you feel about someone who loves you but wants to ‘ruin’ you; who massages your ego as she damages your career [...]?
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁim pa.sjɔ.nɛl/, /kʁim pɑ.sjɔ.nɛl/
Noun
crime passionnel m (plural crimes passionnels)
- crime of passion, crime passionnel