Lust
[lʌst]
Definition
(noun.) self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins).
Checked by Clive--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Melva
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cupidity, inordinate desire.[2]. Concupiscence, carnality, lechery, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnal desire, animal appetite.
Editor: Melinda
Definition
n. longing desire: eagerness to possess: carnal appetite: (B.) any violent or depraved desire.—v.i. to desire eagerly (with after for): to have carnal desire: to have depraved desires.—adjs. Lust′-breathed (Shak.) animated by lust; Lust′-dī′eted (Shak.) pampered by lust.—n. Lust′er.—adj. Lust′ful having lust: inciting to lust: sensual.—adv. Lust′fully.—n. Lust′fulness.—adj. Lust′ic (Shak.) lusty healthy vigorous.—ns. Lust′ihead Lust′ihood Lust′iness.—adv. Lust′ily.—adj. Lust′less (Spens.) listless feeble.—n. Lust′wort the sundew.—adj. Lust′y vigorous: healthful: stout: bulky: (Milt.) lustful.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- Then said Mr. Love-lust, I could never endure him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Commissioners had a good deal of sympathy for the prostitute's condition, but for that lust in the hearts of men, and women we may add, for that, they had no sympathetic understanding. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But it seemed to him, woman was always so horrible and clutching, she had such a lust for possession, a greed of self-importance in love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nothing could withstand them in the fever of battle lust which enthralled them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- If lust is deeply rooted in men and its only expression is evil, I for one should recommend a faith in the millennium. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If lust will seek an expression, are all expressions of it necessarily evil? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And in his heart, he knew that it would require but a tiny spark to turn his hatred for Canler into the blood lust of the killer. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- When Percy MacKaye pleads for pageants in which the people themselves participate, he offers an opportunity for expressing some of the lusts of the city in the form of an art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- To them dishonesty is a contradiction of their own lusts, and they ask no credit, need none, for being true. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All that is dynamic in human character is in these rooted lusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The hungers and lusts of mankind have produced some stupendous follies, but the desires themselves are no less real and insistent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In many books it is stated that Philip was a man of incredible cynicism and of uncontrolled lusts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Hence there must be 'a marriage of true minds' as well as of bodies, of imagination and reason as well as of lusts and instincts. Plato. The Republic.
- The real life of the ordinary man is his everyday life, his little circle of affections, fears, hungers, lusts, and imaginative impulses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Ophelia