What is "concupiscence"

Usage examples of "concupiscence".

By reason of its coolness it tempers superfluous heat: wherefore it fittingly mitigates the concupiscence of the fomes.

Her body was the ideal of concupiscence: breasts large and firm, bouncing lightly as she swayed forward, waist narrow, belly smooth, hips wide, buttocks full and round.

The metallyne gates beeing shut, I remayned incloystered among these fayre and beautifull Nymphes, who began very pleasantly and wantonly to deuise with mee: and beeing hemmed in with their lasciuious company, I found my selfe prouoked by their perswasiue alluring intisements, to vnlawfull concupiscence, feeling in my selfe a burning desire, kyndled with their wanton aspects, an increasing prouocation of a lusting fier.

Moreover, by the growth of carnal concupiscence natural reason was clouded even in regard to sins against nature.

Although fornication is not graver than other sins, yet men are more prone to it, owing to fleshly concupiscence.

This time, however, I was not possessed with the evil spirit of concupiscence, and I allowed innocence to sleep peacefully without attempting anything against it.

The sin of concupiscence, a weakness for the pleasures of the flesh, afflicted high and lowborn alike: I Once she was gone, the old margrave returned immediately to the matter at hand.

That the fault of concupiscence, the seemingly unquenchable desire for the pleasures of the flesh, plagued Prince Sanglant made him no different from most of humankind.

In his silence she recognized a return of the concupiscence between them and wished - amazing herself suddenly - that he were there, that she could see him even if only briefly, be kissed by him and feel the vibrancy of his presence, be cleansed by it and lose the shadings that remained from her nightmare.

As usual she wore the necklace, bracelets and ear-rings which were as indispensable to her as stockings and lipstick might be to another woman, and not even the faintest flash of concupiscence crossed her face to show that she would be glad to replace them with real stones.

The matter was less colourful than that of Lallazay's alleged concupiscence, but more directly related to the actual grievances of the peasantry.

He had eaten the world and the concupiscence of his greed distended his belly.

I received a fisticuff on the nose that made me see a thousand stars, and quite extinguished the fire of my concupiscence.

Whether the venereal delectation is greater or less with the Incubus devils in assumed bodies than it is in like circumstances with men in a true physical body, we may say this: It seems that, although the pleasure should naturally be greater when like disports with like, yet that cunning Enemy can so bring together the active and passive elements, not indeed naturally, but in such qualities of warmth and temperament, that he seems to excite no less degree of concupiscence.

This one, in the rare moments when he is not obsessed by the demons of concupiscence, evinces all the other most common human faults and fallibilities—some of them, in his case, egregious—and others besides.