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concupiscence

[kon-kyoo-pi-suhns, kong-] / kɒnˈkju pɪ səns, kɒŋ- /


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No. Pandering to greed and concupiscence is no way to shape our high streets, our towns, our landscapes or our lives.

From The Guardian Jan. 10, 2011

In ten years he has changed the British movie industry, once compounded of "concupiscence, chicanery and confusion," into a powerful monopolistic instrument, and fashioned a new economic empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three centuries or so ago, William Shakespeare or John Donne could convey passion, poetry, disgust and concupiscence in words with artful undermeanings that shocked none.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of this nonsense goes on in & around Manhattan, with the usual photo-finish race between Hope's cowardice and his concupiscence.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are the intellectual faculties, which, though they are far below the pure Intelligences, have an instinctive desire to shake off the yoke of irascibility and concupiscence.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field




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