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lasciviousness  n.  The state or habitual condition of feeling an excessive or morbid sexual desire.
Synonyms: prurience, pruriency, carnality.






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"Lasciviousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shakespeare's Malvolio. Who would have foreseen Malvolio's exquisitely preposterous address to Jove? In Tartufe there are no such surprises. He displays three qualities, and three only—religious hypocrisy, lasciviousness, and the love of power; and there is not a word that he utters which is not impregnated with one or all of these. Beside the vast elaboration of a Falstaff he seems, at first sight, hardly more solid than some astounding silhouette; yet—such was the power ...
— Landmarks in French Literature • G. Lytton Strachey

... commandments, in all places of resort or concourse in Mansoul, to wit, such as gave liberty to the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life, which are not of Shaddai, but of the world. He encouraged, countenanced, and promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there. Yea, much more did Diabolus to encourage wickedness in the town of Mansoul; he promised them peace, content, joy, and bliss, in doing his commands, and that they should never be called to an account for their not doing the contrary. And let this serve to give a taste ...
— The Holy War • John Bunyan



Words linked to "Lasciviousness" :   carnality, amorousness, prurience, amativeness, lascivious, erotism



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