salacityn.
/səˈlasɪti/ The quality or condition of being salacious; lustfulness, lecherousness, sexual wantonness.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lecherousness or lechery
lecheryc1230
lecherheda1325
lickerousnessc1380
lecherness?c1510
caterwauling1530
ruttery1567
cockishness1573
palliardise1581
routerya1600
salacity1605
saltness1611
catting1681
tomcatting1886
whorehopping1916
skirt patrol1941
skirt-chasing1950
1605 A. Willet Hexapla in Genesin 333 The salacitie and wantonnes of their nation.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. ii. 317 Sparrows, which are..short liued because of their salacity.
1676 J. Evelyn Philos. Disc. Earth 27 Some Earths appear to be totally barren, and some though not altogether so unfruitful, yet wanting salacity to conceive.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 385 Lepers are notorious for their salacity and longevity.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 738 Morbid salacity is no uncommon cause of madness.
1884 World 20 Aug. 9/2 The Oxford fellow whose conversation..was traversed by a vein of salacity.
1903 Sat. Rev. 4 Apr. 428/1 A reading of this book inspires us with a fear lest French salacity is to be paraded in the English tongue.
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