concupiscence

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[ UK /kɒnkjuːpˈɪsəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. a desire for sexual intimacy
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  • In one act of mortification one can practice many virtues, according to the different ends which one proposes in each act, as for example: 1. He who mortifies his body for the purpose of checking concupiscence, performs an act of the virtue of temperance. Archive 2009-03-15
  • Fahey called the forces of unorganized naturalism, that is, the concupiscence of each one of us, our own tendency to sin. Christendom's Building Blocks — Catholic Communities
  • None of us here will be sinless, that is free of the full dangers and lures of concupiscence, until we are made perfect either after death or at Christ's coming - whichever come first. The Continuum
  • ¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things 'sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them. Colossians 3.
  • And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • Pregnant with concupiscence, she beseeched him.
  • First, on account of the violence of its onslaught; thus anger is violent in its onslaught on account of its impetuosity; and "still more difficult is it to resist concupiscence, on account of its connaturality," as stated in _Ethic. _ ii, 3, 9. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
  • Salutary and worthwhile it is to remind yourself sometimes of how prone you are to what the great Karl Rahner described as ‘mental concupiscence.’
  • For Augustine, in a long discussion refutes the opinion of those who thought that concupiscence in man is not a fault but an adiaphoron, as color of the body or ill health is said to be an adiaphoron [as to have a black or a white body is neither good nor evil]. Apology of the Augsburg Confession
  • Her eyes were wild with concupiscence, and her hair spilled around them like a screen of privacy.
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