argumentum ad passiones

Etymology

 * + +  (accusative plural of, “suffering”, “passion”) ≈ “appeal to the passions”

Noun

 * 1)  An  or  intended to  the (s) by agitating the emotions, rather than by appealing to sober.
 * 2) * 1825 September, Lachlan MᶜLean, “Essay on Composition” in The Glasgow Mechanics’ Magazine IV:xcv (15th October 1825), page 142
 * Divide your sentence into three distinct members, each member commencing with the same words, but terminating with words conveying different ideas. Sometimes three or more kindred words may have the same happy effect, in which case we should have a view to alliteration. This mode may be denominated argumentum ad passiones.
 * 1) * 1930, Stuart Gilbert in: Howard Russell Huse, The Illiteracy of the Literate (1933), page 175
 * The speaker uses the argumentum ad hominem by comparing his race with the Chosen People, an argumentum ad fidem in exploiting for the purposes of his similitude their belief in the miraculous origin of the tables of the law, and an argumentum ad passiones in his description of the browbeating of a small inspired race by the arrogant spokesman of a mighty empire.
 * 1) * 1930, Stuart Gilbert in: Howard Russell Huse, The Illiteracy of the Literate (1933), page 175
 * The speaker uses the argumentum ad hominem by comparing his race with the Chosen People, an argumentum ad fidem in exploiting for the purposes of his similitude their belief in the miraculous origin of the tables of the law, and an argumentum ad passiones in his description of the browbeating of a small inspired race by the arrogant spokesman of a mighty empire.

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