Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A feeling antecedent to passion; an inchoate passion; the first stir of passion.
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Christ's sorrow was a propassion, and not a passion.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Reply Obj. 1: Sorrow was not in Christ, as a perfect passion; yet it was inchoatively in Him as a "propassion."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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And thus fear was not in Christ, but only as a propassion.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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When then one looks upon a woman, and his mind is therewith smitten, there is propassion; if he yields to this he passes from propassion to passion, and then it is no longer the will but the opportunity to sin that is wanting.
Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew 1225?-1274 1842
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Hence Jerome says (on Matt. 26: 37) that "Our Lord, in order to prove the reality of the assumed manhood, 'was sorrowful' in very deed; yet lest a passion should hold sway over His soul, it is by a propassion that He is said to have 'begun to grow sorrowful and to be sad'"; so that it is a perfect "passion" when it dominates the soul, i.e. the reason; and a "propassion" when it has its beginning in the sensitive appetite, but goes no further.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Hence it is said (Mk. 14: 33) that Jesus "began to fear and to be heavy," with a propassion, as Jerome expounds (Matt.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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