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English
Etymology
From mis- + passion.
Noun
mispassion (uncountable)
- (rare) Wrong passion or feeling.
a. 1657 (date written), Joseph Hall, “St. Matthew.”, in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D. , volume IV (Paraphrase on Hard Texts, ), London: C Whittingham, ; for Williams and Smith, , published 1808, →OCLC, page 121: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:
1994, Julia Whitty, “The Daguerreotype”, in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, volume 15, number 2, page 93: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.
1999 August 11, [email protected], “Re: Napoleon Hill”, in alt.neo-tech (Usenet):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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