with a passion

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Definition of with a passion

informal

—used to say that someone strongly dislikes someone or something

She hated him with a passion.

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passion play

: the sufferings of Christ between the night of the Last Supper and his death
: an oratorio based on a gospel narrative of the Passion
: suffering

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