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n. - Feeling morbid desire or a propensity to being lewd.

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  • The time past our lives may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, 1 Pet. iv.
  • We may also reply that "lasciviousness" relates to certain acts circumstantial to the venereal act, for instance kisses, touches, and so forth.
  • These demigods revelled in riot and lasciviousness.
  • She grinned with a lasciviousness that startled Sophia.
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