Intense feeling; strong emotion or impulse.
Suffering; agony.
The suffering of Christ in Gethsemane and on the cross.
She and any sort of passion had always seemed so far apart. – The Yellow God An Idol of Africa by H. Rider Haggard
No doubt the noble passion must be there before a man can be a poet, but equally beyond doubt the passion alone cannot make him one. – Platform Monologues by T. G. Tucker