The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lust \Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.] [AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.]
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To list; to like. [Obs.]
--Chaucer. `` Do so if thou lust. ''
--Latimer.Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste.
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To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.
Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
--Deut. xii. 15.Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
--Matt. v. 28.The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.
--James iv. 5.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who lusts. vb. (present participle of lust English)
Usage examples of "lusting".
I did it in plain sight so that every other guard understands that attacking me or lusting for you is death.
She grinned at Sara, noticing that her bodyguard didn’t hear what she’d said because he was too busy lusting after Lena.
What was he about, lusting after his oldest and closest friend’s wife like an ill-mannered villein?
He'd been lusting for her in the disco and instead he'd just killed her.
I have some eager young men outside lusting for their bodies and afterwards your colleagues' fate will be the same as yours.
For you can be sure there are those among 'em who'll be lusting after your women even now - aye, and lusting after Suckscar, too!
And what woman will ever go lusting after men, once she has had a vampire .
What the dog-Lord had said to him, or hinted, about the more ambitious of his men lusting after power and position, had struck a chord.
He had little enough time for her, and she would not even have the comfort of sleeping beside him — or be able to rouse him to a dawn lusting when he was too drowsy to resist her caresses.
In sadness she was set to wed much against her will and bade to place herself beneath the plunging flanks of that lusting stud .
In the past days he had come to realize she could, with no more than a look, a touch, or a smile, awaken his lusting desires more effectively than any woman he had ever known, while seeming oblivious to what she did to him.