concupiscence
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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
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
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
But if the matter be considered carefully, this too appears to be untrue; because the very least grace is sufficient to resist any degree of concupiscence, and to merit eternal life.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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