passion-ridden

passion-ridden

English

Etymology

passion +‎ ridden

Adjective

passion-ridden (comparative more passion-ridden, superlative most passion-ridden)

1. Dominated or controlled by the passions (as opposed to the intellect, for example).
   • 1878, “Can England easily bear the cost of a great war?”, Fraser’s Magazine, May 1878, p. 547,

     […] 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.

   • 1937, Kartar Singh, Life of Guru Nanak Dev, Amritsar: Jaidev Singh Jogindar Singh, Chapter 7, p. 64,

     [The song] summed up for him, in sweet harmonies, the destinies of living beings, the distressed agony of a flaming, passion-ridden world, and appealed to him, in the name of the immense pity that filled his soul, to go forth with his message of hope and liberation, and save the world.

   • 1987, Henry Kamm quoting Ivica Račan, “Ethnic Killing Delivers a Jolt to Yugoslavs,” New York Times, 15 September, 1987,

     The nationalities issue is deeply disturbed and the deterioration is deepening […] There is an irrational and passion-ridden atmosphere.