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(noun) strong desire / (noun) sexual desire

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concupiscence
concupiscent



She had been reared by both parents to know that concupiscence was at the center of male attention; she learned it soon enough anyway in the arms of frenzied boys

—p.89 All the Time in the World (83) by Andre Dubus
notable
9 months ago


some special languorous glow which threw garage fellows, hotel pages, vacationists, goons in luxurious cars, maroon morons near blued pools, into fits of concupiscence which might have tickled my pride, had it not incensed my jealousy

—p.159 by Vladimir Nabokov
notable
11 months, 3 weeks ago


Isadora Wing, ragingly concupiscent

—p.149 Library of the Ultravixens (142) by Elizabeth Young
notable
2 years, 1 month ago


It wasn’t his wife I envied most, sleepy in slacks, but his taciturn daughter. She was bored, taut, and concupiscent.

—p.39 by Brittany Newell
notable
1 year, 4 months ago


based on the belief that concupiscence is a venal thing, scarcely important, unfit to turn man away from the path to salvation

—p.55 by Michel Houellebecq
uncertain
2 years, 10 months ago