lustfulness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Middle English lustfulnesse, from Old English lustfulnes (“desire, pleasure”), equivalent to lustful + -ness.

The holy water have they poisoned with their lustfulness; and when they called their filthy dreams delight, then poisoned they also the words. — Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
But whither goes that vein? whither flows it? wherefore runs it into that torrent of pitch bubbling forth those monstrous tides of foul lustfulness, into which it is wilfully changed and transformed, being of its own will precipitated and corrupted from its heavenly clearness? — The Confessions of St. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint Augustine
Half blind with tears, she lifted the lock to her lips and kissed it passionately, before she bent herself to read the careful English sentences that revealed the man in all his vanity and lustfulness, insolence, and tyranny, as though the burin of Strang or the brush of Sargent had etched him upon copper or limned him upon canvas, to show the world what depths of infamy can be plumbed by the Superman. — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan

lecherousness, lust

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