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Lechery   Listen
noun
Lechery  n.  
1.
Free indulgence of lust; excessive indulgence in sexual relations; used mostly of men.
2.
Selfish pleasure; delight. (Obs.)





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"Lechery" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moment he faced his soul in horrified wonder, then reasoned that he was little past his meridian in years; that a man's will, if favoured by Circumstance, can do much of razing and rebuilding with the inner life. No, he concluded with healthy disgust, he was not that most sickening tribute to lechery, an old vein yawning for transfusion. He was merely a man ready to begin life again before it was too late. This girl had not the beauty he had demanded as his prerogative in woman, but she had individuality, brains, and all womanliness. ...
— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton


Words linked to "Lechery" :   sex activity, sex, sexual practice, lecherous


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