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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



... serving God when this virtue makes you the murderer of your beloved, and, more savage than a wild beast, deaf to the amorous complaints of a woman whom you had led into love and sin, whose virtue you sacrificed to your lust, and whom you afterward deserted because, as you say, God called to yourself, but really only, because satiated, you no longer desired her. Your faithfulness cunningly clothes itself in the mantle of godliness, nothing further. No, no, holy father ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach
... Children, wives, And estate, Are a prey to the lust and plunder, To the rage Of our age; And the fate Of our land Is at hand; 'Tis too late To tread these usurpers under. First down goes the crown, Then follows the gown, Thus levell'd are we by the Roundhead; While Church and State must Feed their pride and ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... had washed out a fancied affront received at the hands of the inhabitants of Cabrieres. The private rancor of a relative induced him to visit a similar revenge on La Coste, where a fresh field was opened for the perfidy, lust, and greed of the soldiery. The peasants were promised by their feudal lord perfect security, on condition that they brought their arms into the castle and broke down four portions of their wall. Too implicit reliance was placed in a nobleman's ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... time, I think, according to one of our poets, when lust and envy sleep. This, I suppose, is when they are well gorged with the food they most delight in; but, while either of ...
— Amelia (Complete) • Henry Fielding
... eternally, the environing material things with which he corresponds must pass away. His soul might last forever—but not his violin. So the man of the world might last forever—but not the world. His Environment is not eternal; nor are even his correspondences—the world passeth away and the lust thereof. ...
— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond


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