en:passion_signs

The OUTWARD SIGNS OF our inward PASSIONS, are ei∣ther

  • Admiration: or Sating; Straining the eyes: or the brows.
    • STARING.
    • MOVING THE BROWS.
  • Love: or Hate; expansion: or contraction of the Muscles of the Face.
    • SMILING, sm•rking, snearing, simper:
    • LOWRING, powting, scowling, frowning, grinning, look sowre.
  • Mirth: or Sorrow.
    • LAUGHING, deride, ridiculous, giggle, chuckle, tihi, flicker.
    • WEEPING, mourn, cry, Tears, wailing, Plaint, bemoan, bewail, la∣ment, blubber, shed tears, whining.
  • Desire: or Aversation; scruing the body: or wagging the head.
    • WRIGLING.
    • MOVING THE HEAD, Nodd.
  • Hope: or Fear; expressed either by the
    • Body or parts of it; being moved once and quick: or oft and con∣tinuedly: or deprived of motion.
      • STARTING, flinching.
        • TREMBLING, quaking, shaking, shudering, Trepidation, qui∣vering, shiver, quaver, chatter.
        • RIGOR, Horrour, Stifness.
  • Breath; emitted short and quick: or emitted slow and long: or sucked up suddenly.
    • HUFFING, snuff, puff.
      • SIGHING, Sobbing.
      • SVCKING up the breath, sniff.
  • Confidence and Diffidence: or Boldness and Despair; setting the hands against the sides: or heaving up the shoulders.
    • KEMBOING.
    • SPANISH SHRUG.

Anger: or Revenge; by emission of the breath; either ‖ vocal, but not articulate: or articulate, but not distinctly intelligible.

  • GRONING.
  • GRUMBLING.

More common to several Passions; by discolouring the countenance ‖ with a greater degree of Redness then doth belong to the natural hue; appertaining either to Joy, Love, Desire, but chiefly to Shame: or else with Whiteness; belonging to those more violent perturbations of Grief, Anger, &c. but chiefly to Fear.

  • BLUSHING, flush.
  • PALENESS, wan, ghastly, pallid, appale.
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  • 2023/05/22 12:08
  • brahmantra