Lasciviousness

Definitions

The characteristic or state of being lascivious.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come⟳ from within, and defile the man.”

“Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness.”

CEFR level