Examples
“This extremely dull piece of costume softcore porn from Hong Kong is set in the Ming dynasty where, among other things, a young, recently married scholar is drawn into the concupiscent world of the Prince of Ning and his Pavilion of Ultimate Bliss.”
“Though there is ever-present sadness the poet still wishes to "whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds.”
The Huffington Post: Kazim Ali: From East Jerusalem to Ramallah
“All of which makes me cut him a lot more slack in the coherent narrative, stupid polyester suit, and concupiscent co-ed departments.”
“Being terrified of women, and yet as concupiscent as bonobo, Qutb is widely believed to have died a virgin.”
“On the other hand, of course, the satisfaction of lurid concupiscent energies in the name of truth is an equal deception and error.”
The Huffington Post: Eric Simpson: The Noetic Value of Fiction
“A concupiscent male face composed of countless tiny flowers, with shriveled brown protuberances discernible as human nipples on the skin itself…”
“This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer I found in State College, Pennsylvania.”
“Usually these glances came from women, though sometimes from gentlemen, who simply admired his fashionable clothes, often of caffa, and his velvet hats; at other times these glances were of a concupiscent nature, whereupon I was made to feel most ill at ease.”
“Many thinkers agreed with Augustine that concupiscent love was to be distinguished from friendship, and, with respect to heavenly beatitude, use from fruition.”
“I suspect there may be more Virgin Strawberry Daiquiris ordered than concupiscent ones.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘concupiscent’.
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Davenport
words looked up recently from reading Guy Davenport
flenite, sampan, provender, comitatus, cycladic, surd, scialytic, lignite, plangencies, fugal, zamindary, macaque and 112 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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The Bucolic Abattoir
Words which, when spoken, suggest something other than their real meaning.
bucolic, fungible, brouhaha, narthex, restive, inflammable, invaluable, raze, pulchritude, noisome, fatuous, terrific and 20 more...
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words 2
janiform, remora, sprat, stoa, sone, lea, scow, atoll, Weltschmerz, barmy, concupiscent, actinic and 13 more...
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ravyn's randy words
Words that are as fun to say as do!
amorous, impassioned, infatuated, enamored, desirous, vehement, ecstasy, frenzy, sentiment, relations, coition, audacious and 16 more...
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The random ones I like
lexiphanes, aplomb, highly, magnanimous, gracious, hyperbole, haphazard, concupiscent, antithesis, epitome, apotheosis, sesquipedalian and 1 more...
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Aviator's supplement
anybody can add to this list which would help our goal to disperse more words...
raillery, scruples, conspicuous, concupiscent, ramshackled, exultant, innate, condescend, pariah, countenance, ply, vitiate and 6 more...
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JimboBaggins's list
paraphenalia
haberdashery, desideratum, esoteric, retribution, retrograde, tetrahedron, iridescent, tentative, siphon, soothsayer, wanderlust, patina and 16 more...
jaime_d "Rilkean angels, complex essences in a wind of light, fibrous with articulate memories, accidental events enriched into significance, a cherished smile, a long afternoon, a concupiscent dream, disappointments salvaged by courage, are the quiring that Fourier saw as a destiny of attractions." from "Apples and Pears" by Guy Davenport Jan 18, 2010
chained_bear This word so does not sound like what it means. Apr 29, 2008
reesetee Love that poem, sionnach. I even made a Poetrie about it. :-) Oct 22, 2007
sionnach CALL the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.
Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Ice-Cream Oct 22, 2007
jaymediane
Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Oct 22, 2007
windsor I actually love the adjectival form, as when used by WS in Measure for Measure, "concupiscible intemperate lust."
Wait: is that adjectival? Isn't it already an adjective? Then what's concupiscible? Dec 5, 2006