passion

1. (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.Examples: "Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]"capitalizedcountableuncountableusually

2. (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.Examples: "a cardiac passion"countableobsoleteuncountable

3. (obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive conditionExamples: "A Body at reſt affords us no Idea of any active Power to move; and when it is ſet in motion its ſelf, that Motion is rather a Paſſion, than an Action in it: [...]"Antonyms: actioncountableobsoleteuncountable

4. (obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.Examples: "The Differences of Impreſsible and Not Impreſsible; Figurable and Not Figurable; Mouldable and Not Mouldable; Sciſsile and Not Sciſsile; And many other Paſsions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied vnto the Inſtruments and Vſes which Men ordinarily practiſe; [...]"countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.Examples: "[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.Examples: "The fit is momentary, vpon a thought / He will againe be well. If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not."countableobsoleteuncountable