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lust
[luhst] 
–noun
| 1. | intense sexual desire or appetite. |
| 2. | uncontrolled or illicit sexual desire or appetite; lecherousness. |
| 3. | a passionate or overmastering desire or craving (usually fol. by for): a lust for power. |
| 4. | ardent enthusiasm; zest; relish: an enviable lust for life. |
| 5. | Obsolete.
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–verb (used without object)
| 6. | to have intense sexual desire. |
| 7. | to have a yearning or desire; have a strong or excessive craving (often fol. by for or after). |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME luste, OE lust; c. D, G lust pleasure, desire; akin to ON lyst desire; see list 4
bef. 900; ME luste, OE lust; c. D, G lust pleasure, desire; akin to ON lyst desire; see list 4
Synonyms:
7. crave, hunger, covet, yearn.
7. crave, hunger, covet, yearn.
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| lust (lŭst) n.
To have an intense or obsessive desire, especially one that is sexual. [Middle English, from Old English, desire; see las- in Indo-European roots.] |
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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. 2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.] For little lust had she to talk of aught. --Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. --Bp. Hall. 3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain. The lust of reigning. --Milton. 4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. --Milton. 5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] --Bacon.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. Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal. In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. --Chaucer. 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. --Deut. xii. 15. Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. --Matt. v. 28. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. --James iv. 5.
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Language Translation for : lust
Spanish:
anhelo, codicia, lujuria,
German:
die Begierde,
Japanese:
熱望
lust
O.E. lust "desire, pleasure," from P.Gmc. *lustuz (cf. O.S., O.Fris., Du., Ger. lust, O.N. lyst, Goth. lustus "pleasure, desire, lust"), from PIE *las- "to be eager, wanton, or unruly" (cf. L. lascivus "wanton, playful, lustful;" see lascivious). In M.E., "any source of pleasure or delight," also "an appetite," also "a liking for a person," also "fertility" (of soil). Sense of "sinful sexual desire, degrading animal passion" (now the main meaning) developed in late O.E. from the word's use in Bible translations. In other Gmc. languages, the cognates of lust tend to still mean simply "pleasure." The verb is first attested c.1230, "to please, delight;" sense of "to have a strong sexual desire (for or after)" is first attested 1526 in biblical use. Lusty (c.1225) mostly has escaped the Christianization of the word; the original usage was "joyful, merry," later "full of healthy vigor" (c.1374). The sense of "full of desire" is attested from c.1400.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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| LUST leaking underground storage tanks |
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