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concupiscence

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13 lettersPronunciation /kənˈkjuːpɪsəns/Part of speech nounSorted cccceeinnopsuStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a desire for sexual intimacy

Word origin

From Latin concupīscentia, from concupīscō (“to desire strongly, to desire eagerly; to covet”).

Used in a sentence

  • [Y]it haue vvee one thing in our ſelues and of our ſelues, (euen originall ſinne, concupiſcence or luſt) vvhich neuer ceaſeth too egge vs and allure vs from God, and too ſtaine vs vvith all kinde of vnclennes: […]
  • for as St. Jerome observes, it is to shew that the true Christian not setting his heart upon the goods of the Earth, ought to trample under foot, all Avarice and immoderate concupiscence of corruptible riches: […]
  • Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that. Now I perceived it; I can scarcely tell how it startled me.

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