Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being libidinous; lustfulness; lewdness.
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- noun
lechery ,lustfulness , the state of beinglibidinous
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Examples
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Women of New York: … their air of intelligent libidinousness
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Women of New York: … their air of intelligent libidinousness
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(III. 5) mentions when speaking of that nature of woman, which he thinks suggests to her every possible act of libidinousness: --
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He was continually embracing and kissing me -- and in the latter indulgence, he often disgusted me beyond measure, by the excessive libidinousness which he exhibited -- I merely mention these things to show the vile and beastly nature of this man, whom the world regarded as a pure and holy minister of the gospel.
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The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.
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The seeds of Julius's courage and compelling energy, of Augustus's prudence, of the libidinousness and cruelty of Tiberius, of Caligula's folly, of Nero's artistic genius and enormous vanity, are all within me.
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The lecturer arose like an outraged moralist to repudiate the scandalous charge of libidinousness.
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He looks with contempt upon his honest toil; repeats mockingly to himself, his simple talk when at meals, about the weather and the crops; sneers at his neatness, and orderliness, and cleanliness; imputes to him his own libidinousness.
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His enemies, however, declared that he had no higher wish than to exercise in secret the cruelty and libidinousness to which he was abandoned.
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There are two kinds of study particularly adapted to preserve the mind and the affections from the assaults of vice and libidinousness.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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