Passion-ridden
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
"[…] it needs little penetration to enable one to declare that the country will come out of such a struggle sadder, perhaps wiser, and certainly shorn of its wealth and greatness to an extent of which the passion-ridden or self-seeking advocates of strife, and the unreflecting multitude who cheer them on, take no thought."
Example
More examples"[…] it needs little penetration to enable one to declare that the country will come out of such a struggle sadder, perhaps wiser, and certainly shorn of its wealth and greatness to an extent of which the passion-ridden or self-seeking advocates of strife, and the unreflecting multitude who cheer them on, take no thought."
Etymology
From passion + ridden.
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