lusting

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verbdesire strongly

Synonyms for lusting

verb desire strongly

Antonyms for lusting

abjure
dislike
hate
not want
despise
have
be chaste
be pure

thirsty

adjective. dry, desirous (especially for liquid)

Word Origin & History

Old English lust "desire, appetite, pleasure," from Proto-Germanic *lustuz (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch, German lust, Old Norse lyst, Gothic lustus "pleasure, desire, lust"), from PIE *las- "to be eager, wanton, or unruly" (cf. Latin lascivus "wanton, playful, lustful;" see lascivious).

In Middle English, "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 Old English from the word's use in Bible translations (e.g. lusts of the flesh to render Latin concupiscentia carnis [I John ii:16]); the cognate words in other Germanic languages tend still to mean simply "pleasure."

Example Sentences for lusting

Among that mad, lusting horde you were so weak, so helpless, yet so hungry for love.

They are lusting and longing for the things of this world, in which there is no profit.

Each man was lusting for all that was not his own; but free alms, where were they?

I fear not uncleanness of meat, but the uncleanness of lusting.

The real man was an arrogant autocrat, lusting for power and wealth.

Try to change a man's heart that is palpitating with poison and lusting for more!

"I have never had the modern madness of lusting for gold; that is all," he told her.

Our two comrades nearest the door were down, and the angry mob, lusting for blood, burst into the room.

Snivins whimpered; and young Champion came up, lusting for battle.

His wild spirit, lusting pleasure, seemed to burn with an instinctive flame of hate.

lusting

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