Meanings of predominant passion in English

The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself.

Will he, therefore, invariably pursue the object of that predominant passion?

Riches were, are, and always will be, his predominant passion.

Both these methods were practised by the wily Ferdinand, according to the predominant passion of Monimia.

In depriving himself, he satisfies his predominant passion.

Think then, of a gentleman of ancient blood, the pride of which was his predominant passion.

Study and abstraction were his greatest pleasures, and a love of reading became his predominant passion.

Everybody pitied me, or pretended to do so, for selfishness is the predominant passion of gamesters.

How difficult does every man find it, as well as I, to forego a predominant passion!

The predominant passion, and its force, ver.

Girl, not gold, his predominant passion.

Together with these circumstances, great inequalities arise in the distribution of property; and the desire of pre-eminence becomes the predominant passion.

I mean ambition and avarice: the latter is often the true cause of the former, and then is the predominant passion.

The influence of predominant passion may be transmitted from the parent to the child, just as surely a similarity of looks.

Vanity is plainly her predominant passion, and, if you will administer to that, it will infallibly throw her into your arms.

My predominant passion is girl, not gold; nor value I this, but as it helps me to that, and gives me independence.