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ˈcounter-passion
Also 7 contre-.
[counter- 2, 3, 8.]
a. A passion opposed to or the opposite of another.
†b. Passion or suffering corresponding to that felt by another.
†c. An outburst of passion against something.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars viii. lxxviii, When this great fight of counter-passions had been throughly try'd. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Nameless Cath. 365 These sections conclusorie, are rather Contre-passions of Lunacie, then artificiall closes of an Epilogue. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. i. xx. heading, Of Covetousness and her counter-passion. c1630Jackson Creed vi. xxxiii. Wks. V. 520 Punished according to the rule of retaliation or counter-passion. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 81 (1794) III. 291 The prevalence of some counter-passion. |
