† proˈpassion Obs.
[ad. med.L. prōpassiōn-em: see pro-1 1 g and passion n. Cf. F. propassion.]
A feeling that precedes or anticipates passion; the first stir or beginning of a passion.
| 1597 J. King On Jonas (1618) 639 They were rather propassions and entrances into passion than passions, rather infirmities than iniquities. 1627 Bp. Hall Farew. Serm. Fam. Pr. Henry Wks. 464 As death, so passions are the companions of infirmity: whereupon some that haue beene too nice haue called those which were incident into Christ propassions. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. Disc. ix. 122 Not the first motions are forbidden, the pro-passions, and sudden and irresistible alterations. a 1700 Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 234 For a wise man should not be without his passions, but above them... Keep a steady hand, regulated and free from excess; for so did our Lord and Master; and therefore have divines called them propassions. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xiv. 392 In our Divine Lord there were no passions... We say indeed, that there were in Him pro-passions. 1876 ― Glories of Sacred Heart ix. 266 All those pro-passions, as they are called—because the Church never speaks of passions when it speaks of the Sacred Heart. |