Usually means: Dominant desire driving one's actions.
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  1. ruling passion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. ruling passion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. ruling passion: Dictionary.com
  4. Ruling Passion, The Ruling Passion (film), The Ruling Passion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. ruling passion, Ruling Passion: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Ruling Passion)

noun:  a 1973 crime novel by Reginald Hill, the third novel in the Dalziel and Pascoe series.


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