mispassion

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ passion.

Noun

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mispassion (uncountable)

  1. (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[harles] 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, c_thom...@my-deja.com, “Re: Napoleon Hill”, in alt.neo-tech[1] (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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