grand passion

noun

Any overwhelming or intense love for a specific subject, idea, activity, hobby, etc.

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Meanings

noungrand passion (plural grand passions)

plural grand passions

  1. datedidiomaticAny overwhelming or intense love for a specific subject, idea, activity, hobby, etc.

    But the grand passion of emancipated youth is not Woman - it is Beer.

    1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 19
  2. alternativeAlternative form of grande passion (“a passionate love affair”).

    Mr. Wells's latest novel is the story of a grand passion. Not a happy story by any means, and the final note struck is tragic in the intensity of renunciation and squandered passion.

    13 Oct 1913, The Western Mail, Perth, page 48, column 1
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