| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section I. Affections in General | | Section IV. Possessive Relations |
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| 820. Affections. |
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| NOUN: | CHARACTER, qualities, disposition, affections, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast -, habit -, frame- of -mind, - soul; predilection, turn; natural -, turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency [obs.]; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle, backbone; sympathy (love) [See Love].
SOUL, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; heart’s -core, - strings, - blood; heart of hearts, penetralia mentis [L.]; secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one’s heart; inmost- heart, - soul.
PASSION, pervading spirit; ruling -, master- passion; furore [It.], furor; fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul.
ENERGY, fervor, fire, verve, force.
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| VERB: | have or possess character &c. n.; be of a character &c. n.; be affected &c. adj.; breathe energy &c. n.
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| ADJECTIVE: | CHARACTERIZED, affected, formed, molded or moulded, cast; attemperate, attempered, tempered; framed.
PRONE, predisposed, disposed, inclined; having a bias &c. n.; tinctured -, imbued -, penetrated -, eaten up- with.
INBORN, inbred, ingrained; deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate; congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain.
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| ADVERB: | in one’s heart &c. n.; at heart; heart and soul [See Feeling]; in the vein, in the mood.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - The ruling passion strong in death.
- The Divinity that stirs within us.—Addison
- That dread apocalypse of soul.—E. B. Browning
- How paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man’s soul?—Carlyle
- Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul.—Holmes
- Character is an historical fruit, and the result of a man’s biography.—Amiel
- One master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows all the rest.—Pope
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