How To Use Lasciviousness In A Sentence
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Otherwise, all is lasciviousness and frozen deceit.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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 .
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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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His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
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Words in the Bible, such as "lasciviousness" and so on, have started mere school children asking questions to which probably they only got distorted answers from other school children.
Men Women and God
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The glories of technology, combined with our high-octane lasciviousness and natural good looks, have made our town the purportedly third-biggest pornography producing centre in the world, after Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
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There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it.
Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.
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Had the media been accessible to us, perhaps we could have heard of the term act of lasciviousness .
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We may also reply that "lasciviousness" relates to certain acts circumstantial to the venereal act, for instance kisses, touches, and so forth.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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It is well known that polygamical love is divided among several, and divided love is not conjugial love, which cannot be divided from one of the sex; hence the former love is lascivious, and polygamy is lasciviousness.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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3 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, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manóbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir