🔥 Full of emotion 📖 A religious text

passional

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An old religious book that tells about Jesus's suffering and death

noun

Archaic

: pasional

The passional provides deep insight into Christ's suffering.

Examples

A rare passional was discovered among the monastery's oldest manuscripts.
Scholars studied the illuminated passional to learn about medieval religious practices.
The monk spent hours reading the ancient passional in the candlelit chapel.
Many scholars study ancient passionals for theological research.
The monk spent hours reading the ancient passional in the candlelit chapel.
A rare passional was discovered among the monastery's oldest manuscripts.
Scholars studied the illuminated passional to learn about medieval religious practices.

Synonyms

devotional

vspassional

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A short religious reading for daily prayer and reflection

focuses specifically on Christ's suffering in an older book form

Surface Forms

passional singular

passionals plural

Morphology

passional = passion (opaque) = passion + al

Although the form is passion + -al, this sense depends on the specialized religious meaning of the Passion of Christ and the resulting noun is not readily predictable for most learners.

Etymology

Passional comes from the Latin passio 'suffering' and was used for books about the Passion, the sufferings of Christ. So a passional is an old devotional book that tells about Christ's suffering.