grand passion

English

Noun

grand passion (plural grand passions)

  1. Alternative form of grande passion (“passionate love affair”).
    • 13 Oct 1913, The Western Mail, Perth, page 48, column 1:
      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.
  2. Any overwhelming or intense love for a specific subject, idea, activity, hobby, etc.
    • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 19:
      But the grand passion of emancipated youth is not Woman - it is Beer.
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