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The Collaborative International Dictionary
lasciviousness

lasciviousness \las*civ"i*ous*ness\ n. The state or habitual condition of feeling an excessive or morbid sexual desire.

Syn: prurience, pruriency, carnality.

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lasciviousness

n. The state or characteristic of being lascivious.

WordNet
lasciviousness

n. feeling morbid sexual desire [syn: prurience, pruriency, carnality]

Usage examples of "lasciviousness".

He encouraged, countenanced, and promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there.

The Lord Fornication, the Lord Adultery, the Lord Murder, the Lord Anger, the Lord Lasciviousness, the Lord Deceit, the Lord Evil-Eye, Mr.

Some of their names are the Lord Fornication, the Lord Adultery, the Lord Murder, the Lord Anger, the Lord Lasciviousness, the Lord Deceit, the Lord Evil-eye, the Lord Blasphemy, and that horrible villain, the old and dangerous Lord Covetousness.

Lord Covetousness, and my Lord Lasciviousness, by what they may do, keep him out of the town?

The statue lapped at him with stupid lasciviousness, and he steeled himself to its affections.

The two brigands looked at each other for a moment -- the one with a smile of lasciviousness on his lips, the other with the pallor of death on his brow.

Well, maybe not exactly dismay, since Jim Bob deserved to pay through the nose for the sin of having a charge account at a store that specialized in lasciviousness.

Feminists such as the Cobden daughters wanted to enjoy the same human dignity as men, and that meant quashing entertainment and vices that promoted the enslavement of women, such as prostitution and the lasciviousness of London's many music halls.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

For among the works of the flesh which he said were manifest, and which he cited for condemnation, we find not only those which concern the pleasure of the flesh, as fornications, uncleanness, lasciviousness, drunkenness, revellings, but also those which, though they be remote from fleshly pleasure, reveal the vices of the soul.

I see only too plainly that the lasciviousness of this wife of mine has been the death of me: God make her as wretched as I would fain be happy!

When he smiled, he exuded an easy air of undistilled, excitingly dangerous lasciviousness.