Lust

/ˈlʌst/ · noun

Meaning

A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal..

Definitions by Sense

1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
3. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
4. (obsolete) Virility; vigour; active power.
5. (intransitive, usually in the phrase lust after) To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
6. (archaic; transitive or intransitive with after, for, to, etc.; formerly also reflexive) To desire.

Example Sentences

Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust.

The boarders hide their lust to go home.

For little luſt had ſhe to talke of ought, […]

[T]he vvorld thruſts it ſelfe betvvixt me and heauen; and, by his darke and indigeſted parts, eclipſeth that light vvhich ſhined to my ſoule. Novv, a ſenſeleſſe dulneſſe ouer-takes mee, and beſots mee; my luſt to deuotion is little, my ioy none at all: Gods face is hid, and I am troubled.

An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.

Pompe, pryde, honour, ryches, and wordly lust, / Parrot sayth playnly, shall tourne all to dust.

It is reported, that Trees will grow greater, and beare better Fruit, if you put Salt, or Lees of Wine, or Bloud to the Root. The Cauſe may be the Encreaſing the Luſt or Spirit of the Root; […]

He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […]

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