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▪ I. lusting, vbl. n.|ˈlʌstɪŋ|
[f. lust v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb lust in its various senses.
a1300Seven Sins viii. in E.E.P. (1862) 18 Þat me giue lif and gode ending and to ȝou ȝiue gode lusting in þis silue place. 1580Sidney Ps. xxxvii. iii, Delight in God, and he shall breede The fullnesse of thy own hartes lusting. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 73 Paul's persecution, though a real gratification of his envious lustings, by his blinded understanding was judged duty. 1760Law Spirit of Prayer i. 54 By the flesh, and its lustings, are meant..the natural man, as he is by the fall. 1895Kipling Seven Seas (1896) 82 The lying, and the lusting, and the drink. 1909Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 2/3 Thou art grim with the lusting of gain.
▪ II. ˈlusting, ppl. a.
[f. lust v. + -ing2.]
That lusts; having lustful desires.
1559T. Brice Compend. Reg., Wishes Wise ii, When shall the minde bee moued right To leaue hys lustyng life? 1591Greene Maidens Dream in Shaks. Soc. Papers (1845) II. 138 The lusting humor of the eyes..Could not allure his mind to think of vice. 1844W. H. Mill Serm. Tempt. Christ iv. 91 The hopes of good which the lusting eye conceived in them while distant. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 118 The tyrannical man..is just a drinking, lusting, furious sort of animal. |