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Lust   /ləst/   Listen
noun
Lust  n.  
1.
Pleasure. (Obs.) " Lust and jollity."
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."
4.
Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite.
5.
Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. (Obs.)


verb
Lust  v. i.  (past & past part. lusted; pres. part. lusting)  
1.
To list; to like. (Obs.) " Do so if thou lust. " Note: 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."





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"Lust" Quotes from Famous Books



... exciting, I stooped over her, passed a hand under her belly, replaced Mary's fingers, rubbing her clitoris while Mary frigged her cunt with two fingers thrust into it. We thus quickly brought matters to an end, and died off in all the ecstasies of satiated lust. As daylight was beginning to dawn, I tore myself from their loving embraces, gained my room in safety, and slept the sleep of the just until ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
... the second mace-bearer, snatched the mace from his hand and laid about him in a sudden frenzy; at the first blow, delivered at unawares, catching the ringleader on the crown and felling him like an ox. For a second, perhaps, he stared, amazed at his own prowess, and with that the lust of battle ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... to them from the first, and Priam and his people, on account of the infatuation of Paris, who had insulted the goddesses, when they came to his cottage, and preferred her who gratified his destructive lust.[775] But when the twelfth morning from that had arisen, then indeed Phoebus ...
— The Iliad of Homer (1873) • Homer
... satirist! There is no humor In what you see and I see when we look On this crude world wherein our lives are spent— This sordid sphere where we are but spectators— This crass grim modern spectacle of lives Torn with consuming lust of one desire— Gold, gold, forever gold— Or do you find ...
— Mr. Faust • Arthur Davison Ficke
... counted by thousands and tens of thousands in the land! They are the drunkards, the licentious, the profane, the false, the cruel,—those who abandon themselves to a vicious life, and do not take the trouble of attempting to hide their sin under a cloak of sanctity. They gratify every lust, and crucify none. They live without God in the world. The key-note of their being is, Let us eat and ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot


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