lusts

[Lust]

Lust is a strong craving for sex. It also can mean a hunger for anything, like lust for power.

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Pleasure

Noun
self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Noun
a strong sexual desire

Verb
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for


n.
Pleasure.

n.
Inclination; desire.

n.
Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.

n.
Licentious craving; sexual appetite.

n.
Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.

n.
To list; to like.

n.
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.


Lust

Lust , n. [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS., D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. List to please, Listless.] 1. Pleasure [Obs.] " Lust and jollity." Chaucer. 2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]
For little lust had she to talk of aught.
My lust to devotion is little.
3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
The lust of reigning. Milton. 4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton. 5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] Bacon.

Lust

Lust , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.] [AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.] 1. To list; to like. [Obs.] Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust. " Latimer. &hand; In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste.
2. 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.
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.

Pleasure

To list; to like.

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Usage Examples

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

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