concupiscible
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /kənˈkjuːpɪsɪbəl/
concupiscible
- (obsolete) Greatly to be desired or lusted after; exciting concupiscence.
- Pertaining to concupiscence or lust; characterized by strong desire.
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “Measvre for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 5, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
- He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […].
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:, New York Review Books, 2001, p.258:
- [Perturbations and passions] are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.
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