Meaning of lust after | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To have strong sexual feelings or desires for someone with whom the individual is not in a relationship with.
   transitive
2. To have a strong desire for something.
   transitive, uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt.”

“But I ſay vnto you / that whoſoever eyeth a wyfe / luſtynge affter her / hathe committed advoutrie with her alredy in his hert.”

“But Paridell of loue did make⟳ no threaſure, / But luſted after all, that him did moue.”

“The women are for courage, Amazonian, and of ſuch account with their tyrannique Lords, that the ſafeguard of their bodies are committed ſometimes to their care, oft to their valours, but moſt to enioy perpetually their company. For ſocietie with that ſex, is much luſted after by all inflamed Aſiatiques.”

“Thy name⟳ is a curse in Israel; yet dost thou lust after the daughter of our despised race⟳, and, could defeated passion sting⟳ thee, I were avenged.”

“David Buss, of the University of Michigan, another evolutionary psychologist of the unerring Nicene Creed, has said that asking a man not to lust after a pretty young woman is like⟳ telling a carnivore not to like⟳ meat.”

“Yf the waye be to longe for the, ſo that thou art not able to carie it, becauſe the place⟳ is to farre from the whiche the Lorde thy God hath choſen to ſet his name⟳ there (for the Lorde thy God hath bleſſed the) then make⟳ it in money and take⟳ the money in thyne hande, and goo vnto the place⟳ which the Lorde thy God hath choſen, and beſtowe that moneye on what ſoeuer thy ſoule luſteth after: […]”

“The declaration of Innocent III, that the whole people was condemned by God, on account of its guilt, to perpetual slavery, became the oft-cited Magna Charta for all those who lusted after the gains and possessions of the Jews; […]”

“On the mainland nearby live⟳ men who dress in rags and lust after our riches. They come⟳ in small groups in the night to steal⟳. Their weapons are poor and their boats smaller and slower than ours. But they are people without illusions and with intelligence. Their desire to steal⟳ has made them inventive.”

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