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- noun archaic
lasciviousness
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Examples
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Canaanite moral indifference and lascivity would have found what Shechem had done quite natural and certainly not reprehensible.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Another article says: "The effects of climate on the physiology of black women were used to support theories about the sexual promiscuity and fertility of black races, exemplified in the description by J. J Virey, of the 'degree of lascivity unknown in our climate' among black women 'for their sexual organs are much more developed than those of whites.'
ANC Today 2002
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Another article says: "The effects of climate on the physiology of black women were used to support theories about the sexual promiscuity and fertility of black races, exemplified in the description by J. J Virey, of the 'degree of lascivity unknown in our climate' among black women 'for their sexual organs are much more developed than those of whites.'
ANC Today 2002
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