[Y]it haue vvee one thing in our ſelues and of our ſelues, (euen originall ſinne, concupiſcence or luſt) vvhich neuer ceaſeth too egge vs and allure vs from God, and too ſtaine vs vvith all kinde of vnclennes: […]
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Concupiscence
//kənˈkjuːpɪsəns//
Synonyms for "concupiscence" (87 found)
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Related words (43)
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25 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- похот noun (Ardent desire)
- похотливост noun (Ardent desire)
Danish
1 entries- begær noun (Ardent desire)
Dutch
1 entries- begeerte noun (Ardent desire)
Finnish
1 entries- palava halu noun (Ardent desire)
French
1 entries- concupiscence noun (Ardent desire)
German
2 entries- Begehren noun (Ardent desire)
- Gelüst noun (Ardent desire)
Icelandic
4 entries- frygð noun (Ardent desire)
- fýsn noun (Ardent desire)
- girnd noun (Ardent desire)
- losti noun (Ardent desire)
Ido
1 entries- konkupicenco noun (Ardent desire)
Irish
1 entries- adhall noun (Ardent desire)
Māori
1 entries- taera noun (Ardent desire)
Old Uyghur
1 entries- 𐽶𐽰𐽴𐽳𐽵𐾄 noun (Ardent desire)
Polish
2 entries- pożądanie noun (Ardent desire)
- pożądliwość noun (Ardent desire)
Portuguese
1 entries- concupiscência noun (Ardent desire)
Russian
2 entries- вожделе́ние noun (Ardent desire)
- по́хоть noun (Ardent desire)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pohota noun (Ardent desire)
- pohotljivost noun (Ardent desire)
Spanish
1 entries- concupiscencia noun (Ardent desire)
Swedish
1 entries- begär noun (Ardent desire)
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for as St. Jerome observes, it is to shew that the true Christian not setting his heart upon the goods of the Earth, ought to trample under foot, all Avarice and immoderate concupiscence of corruptible riches: […]
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Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that. Now I perceived it; I can scarcely tell how it startled me.
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He was torn by two intense and conflicting desires: his ardent wish to advance through his association with Mr. Browning, and his concupiscence.
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