concupiscence
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /kənˈkjuːpɪsəns/
concupiscence
- An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
- St. Augustine, The Confessions X, 30, 41. translated by Maria Boulding
- Quite certainly you command me to refrain from concupiscence of the flesh and concupiscence of the eyes and worldy pride.
- 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers.
- Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that. Now I perceived it; I can scarcely tell how it startled me.
- 1994, Newsweek, winter
- Skaters, spinning like atoms across fields of pure light, are desirable in a way that transcends mere concupiscence; they inhabit another element, and the man who would try to catch one risks, literally, falling on his ass.
- St. Augustine, The Confessions X, 30, 41. translated by Maria Boulding
- French: concupiscence
- German: Gelüst, Begehren
- Portuguese: concupiscência
- Russian: вожделе́ние
- Spanish: concupiscencia
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