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Definition of Lusts
1. lust [v] - See also: lust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lusts
Literary usage of Lusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1861)
"Men are given to sensual lusts occasionally, but these lusts of the mind, ...
Yea, many sins are abstained from in relation to the lusts of the mind ..."
2. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"When your lusts have more of your hearts, thoughts, delight, desires, ... If the
desires of your hearts be more after the fulfilling of your lusts, ..."
3. Prayers and Offices of Devotion, for Families, and for Particular Persons by Benjamin Jenks (1833)
"O let not sin any longer reign in my mortal body, that I should obey it in the
lusts thereof, but help me, Lord, to cut off the right hand, and to pluck out ..."
4. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedictus de Spinoza, Robert Harvey Monro Elwes (1891)
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, liut virtue itself ; neither do we
rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but, contrariwise, ..."
5. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"1 beasts, who speak great swelling words of vanity, alluring through the ' lusts
of the flesh, through much wantonness, as they that count it plea- 4 sure ..."
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