Meanings
- rareuncountableWrong passion or feeling.
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: […]
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 1212 more examples
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.
1994, Julia Whitty, “The Daguerreotype”, in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, volume 15, number 2, page 93Hill 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.
1999 August 11, c_thom...@my-deja.com, “Re: Napoleon Hill”, in alt.neo-tech (Usenet)
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