Lust
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lust \Lust\, n. [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS.,
D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh.
tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. {List} to
please, {Listless}.]
1. Pleasure. [Obs.] " Lust and jollity." --Chaucer.
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2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]
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For little lust had she to talk of aught. --Spenser.
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My lust to devotion is little. --Bp. Hall.
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3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had
sense; as, the lust of gain.
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The lust of reigning. --Milton.
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4. Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite. --Milton.
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5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] --Bacon.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lust \Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lusted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Lusting}.] [AS. lystan. See {Lust}, n., and cf. List to
choose.]
1. To list; to like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust.
" --Latimer.
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Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
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In the water vessel he it cast
When that him luste. --Chaucer.
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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.
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Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. --Deut. xii.
15.
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Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath
committed adultery with her already in his heart.
--Matt. v. 28.
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The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.
--James iv. 5.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Lust
sinful longing; the inward sin which leads to the falling away
from God (Rom. 1:21). "Lust, the origin of sin, has its place in
the heart, not of necessity, but because it is the centre of all
moral forces and impulses and of spiritual activity." In Mark
4:19 "lusts" are objects of desire.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "lust":
acedia, ache, ache for, acquisitiveness, ambition, andromania,
anger, animality, animus, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency,
appetite, appetition, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity,
avidness, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite,
carnal desire, carnality, choice, clitoromania, command, conation,
conatus, concupiscence, coveting, covetousness, crave, craving,
cupidity, deadly sin, decision, desire, determination, dirtiness,
discretion, disposition, drive, energy, envy, eromania, eroticism,
eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, excitement,
fancy, fervor, fleshliness, fleshly lust, free choice, free will,
frenzy of desire, furor uterinus, fury of desire, gluttony,
goatishness, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gula,
gynecomania, hanker, heat, hoggishness, horniness, hot blood,
hot pants, hunger, hysteromania, inclination, incontinence,
indecency, infantile sexuality, inordinate desire, insatiability,
insatiable desire, intemperateness, intention, invidia, ira, itch,
itching palm, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness,
libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, liking, lubriciousness,
lubricity, lust after, lustfulness, luxuria, mind, nymphomania,
objective, obscenity, overgreediness, passion, piggishness, pine,
pleasure, polymorphous perversity, priapism, pride, prurience,
pruriency, randiness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness,
resolution, rut, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism,
sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing,
sexual passion, sexuality, sloth, sordidness, superbia,
swinishness, thirst, urge, uteromania, velleity, venereal appetite,
volition, voraciousness, voracity, will, will power, wish,
wolfishness, wrath, yearn, yearning, yen
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