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noun
- an ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust
- quotations:
- "Skaters, spinning like atoms across fields of pure light, are desirable in a way that transcends mere ; they inhabit another element, and the man who would try to catch one risks, literally, falling on his ass." — Newsweek, Winter 1994.
- "Quite certainly you command me to refrain from of the flesh and of the eyes and worldy pride." — St. Augustine, The Confessions X, 30, 41. Trans Maria Boulding.
- "He was torn by two intense and conflicting desires: his ardent wish to advance through his association with Mr. Browning, and his ." — Please Pass the Guilt, Rex Stout, 1973.
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Etymology: From the Latin concupiscere, "to desire strongly"
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