lasciviousness

[ UK /lɐsˈɪvɪəsnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
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How To Use lasciviousness In A Sentence

  • Otherwise, all is lasciviousness and frozen deceit.
  • The actor's immorality is not lasciviousness, as Puritans and neo-Confucians believed, but the vanity culture that makes all pursuits vain, extrinsic, and spectacular.
  • Perhaps the only criticism I might put forward is that he made the Aunt a little too old, making her lasciviousness and lust a little unbelievable (the book portrays her as a raunchy woman but not that old).
  • For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. 1 Peter 4.
  • In view of this, the provincial government office yesterday issued a circular calling for strict land management, waste land to prohibit all acts of lasciviousness .
  • Gentiles -- heathen: which many of you were. when, &c. -- "walking as ye have done [Alford] in lasciviousness"; the Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The time past our lives may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, 1 Pet. iv. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • But the warning being against lasciviousness, the contrast to "whoremongers and adulterers" in the parallel clause, requires the "in all" in this clause to refer to persons. the bed undefiled -- Translate, as Greek requires "undefiled" to be a predicate, not an epithet, "And let the bed be undefiled. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The monk Ordericus Vitalis, in the eleventh century, notes what he calls the "lasciviousness" of the wives of the Norman conquerors of England who, when left alone at home, sent messages that if their husbands failed to return speedily they would take new ones. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
  • The elegance which she wished to introduce was termed lasciviousness; yet I do not find that the absence of gallantry renders the wives more chaste, or the husbands more constant. Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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