Concupiscible
"Concupiscible" in a Sentence (4 examples)
For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.
He would not, but by gift of my chaste body / To his concupiscible intemperate lust, / Release my brother […]
Perturbations and passions, which trouble the fantasy, though they dwell between the confines of sense and reason, yet they rather follow sense than reason because they are drowned in corporeal organs of sense. They are commonly reduced into two inclinations, irascible and concupiscible.
The irascible and concupiscible appetites are distinguished by different aspects of their objects. The object of the concupiscible faculty "is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such" while good and evil considered as "arduous or difficult … is the object of the irascible faculty."
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