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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



... sight of Cuthbert putting on an equal amount of side on board his own ship was too much for him, and rushing up the brow connecting the ship with the shore he came on board licking his lips in joyful anticipation and the lust of battle shining in ...
— Stand By! - Naval Sketches and Stories • Henry Taprell Dorling
... peninsula and was therefore nearer Flanders, but more probably because the great Duke of Ferrara was animated by that superb pride of race that chafes at rivalry; this, added to a wish to encourage art, and the lust of possession which characterised the ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee
... of Love (or Lust rather)," according to Fuller, "presented a tedious petition to King James, so that it is questionable whether his Majesty ever graced it with his perusall, wherein they endeavoured to cleare themselves from some misrepresentations, and by fawning expression ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 • Various
... the noble steeds! Alas for the gallant men. When the lust of battle is over who would not grieve to see that noble squadron break into red ruin before the rain of arrows beating upon the faces and breasts of the horses? The front rank crashed down, and the others piled themselves upon the top of them, unable to check their speed, ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... Roman might be deterred by the law, which means fear of punishment, or by the opinion of his neighbors, which means ignominy. He might recognize the fact that comfort would combine itself with innocence, or disease and want with lust and greed. In this there was little need of a conscience—hardly, perhaps, room for it. But when ambition came, with all the opportunities that chance, audacity, and intellect would give—as it did to Sylla, to ...
— Life of Cicero - Volume One • Anthony Trollope


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