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crime of passion en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A crime, typically a violent crime such as assault or murder, committed against a loved one because of sudden jealous rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated act.
   • There was this boy I sent to the electric chair at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. 2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):

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Translations (8)

ms jenayah berang (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · fi intohimorikos (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · fr crime passionnel (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · ru преступле́ние на по́чве стра́сти (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · ca crim passional (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · pl zbrodnia w afekcie (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · es crimen pasional (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak) · pt crime passional (crime against a loved one because of jealous rage or heartbreak)