mispassion

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ passion

Noun

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.

Further reading

• “mispassion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• impassions