lustfulness

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lust·ful

(lŭst′fəl)

adj.

Excited or driven by lust.

lust′ful·ly adv.

lust′ful·ness n.

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Noun

lustfulness - a strong sexual desire

lecherousness, lust

concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy

lustfulness

noun

Sexual hunger:

amativeness, concupiscence, desire, eroticism, erotism, itch, libidinousness, lust, passion, prurience, pruriency.

Translations

concupiscence

lascivia

lustfulness

[ˈlʌstfʊlnɪs] N → lujuria f, lascivia f

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lustfulness

n → Lüsternheit f, → Begierde f

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The holy water have they poisoned with their lustfulness; and when they called their filthy dreams delight, then poisoned they also the words.

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She started to accuse her of lustfulness. How she was so much like her father, how she was as wicked, cavorting with any male within the vicinity.

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There is a level of lustfulness when social media are used.

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"Those who reverence the old religion [would] complain of corruption," (3) he wrote, and the bishop (Armisen) dutifully details a vivid list of sins, "abusive language, lustfulness, homosexuality, apostasy, heresy, revelings, eating blood"--their sins make their earlier confession ("I took a turnip") as blandly vegetative as their lives were when they were confined in the old religion.

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It was just too extreme to also put all the, you know, all the blame on a woman for being the reason of lustfulness among men.

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(17) There is also further engagement with contemporary medical ideas surrounding twins, whose presence was also considered to be an indicator of their parents' lustfulness. When Sophia reminds Rollo and Otto that 'one chast bed begot you' (TBB, II.

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The lustfulness hinted at in her bodily interaction with the rosary becomes overt when she describes her erotic interaction with the figure of Jesus on the crucifix.

"At the end of everything": confession and critique in Michel Tremblay's: Damnee Manon, Sacree Sandra

While the boatmaker's alcoholism and lustfulness make him a not very likable character, his innocence upon observing new lands and his ambitious optimism keep the pages of the book turning; one wishes that by the end of his tale, he will redeem himself.

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Fabliaux dwell on the rabid lustfulness of old cuckolds, a tradition that informs the portrayal of Joseph in biblical drama.

Madonna, whore: Mary's sexuality in the N-Town plays

The third chapter addresses a problem raised by Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex [1990]: why fundamental ideas about male and female bodies and women's greater lustfulness were overturned by c.

The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution

In Theology of the Body for Beginners (Ascension), Christopher West discusses "mature purity" by focusing on Christian love instead of our propensity toward lustfulness. Pope John Paul II defined mature purity as liberation from concupiscence.