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Significados de prurience en inglés

portugués
lasciva
catalán
carnalitat
español
carnalidad

Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.

carnalidad
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Examples for "lasciviousness"
Examples for "lasciviousness"
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For a moment her illusory lasciviousness vanished, and her genuine personality slipped through.
Wicked lovely
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This were indeed to turn the grace of God into lasciviousness.
Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life
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Many fall off from covetousness to pride and lasciviousness: take heed of this.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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Secondly, he warns them of the fearful danger of depravity, pride, and lasciviousness.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
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And in how many ways are children destroyed by the lasciviousness of man?
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / With Strictures on Politi...
1
One could not help smiling at the mixture of piety, pomp, and carnality.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
2
Besides, the laws that govern premarital carnality care not of the coupling's mutuality.
Tomato rhapsody: a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit
3
Its fellows lapped at the psychoscent, sported like porpoises in clouds of carnality.
Perdido Street Station
4
The generous cleavage, the bed hair, the volatile temperament, the carnality.
The Guardian
5
It struck Max, enough to extinguish all thoughts of carnality.
The Information Officer
1
The works of our standard authors in literature abound in lubricity.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
2
For the first time he understands the motionless lubricity of trees.
Down There
3
Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.
Essays — First Series
4
Dogs were offered in sacrifice to them-presumablybecause of the lubricity of that animal.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
5
He also inspected the crypts of churches, to unearth traces of the priests' lubricity.
The Aspirations of Jean Servien
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There never was an age in which pruriency in any guise could cease to be indecent.
My Contemporaries In Fiction
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He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
3
His bodily senses grow acute, even to barren and inhuman pruriency; while his mental become proportionally obtuse.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
4
By its suggestion of horror it provoked that hunger for details which, in its acute stage, becomes pruriency.
The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
5
He had no claptrap, no great cause, none of the disease of pruriency which came into fashion with Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial
Uso de prurience en inglés
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What happened next has been the source of much prurience from biographers.
The Irish Times
2
It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Mon Dieu!
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
3
This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
The new yorker
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And Deborah feels it again: that mix of vicarious prurience tinged with jealousy.
Pandaemonium
5
A man will almost inevitably scare up accusations of inappropriate prurience.
The Irish Times
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My motive, as well as I can remember, was not prurience but simple curiosity.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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A current example is the prurience with which many habitual "Oilers" condemn homosexuality.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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Their affair, which lasted three years, created a media feeding frenzy of prurience about lesbianism.
The Guardian
9
He is equally concerned to defend himself against the obvious charges of prurience and immorality:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience, to gentle and more harmless pleasantry.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
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She could not tell if she was driven by prurience, or a more noble instinct.
The Scar
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The Speak Outs are to probe such large subjects as prurience, marijuana, and the free press.
The new yorker
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That is so whether the motive for such intrusion is merely prurience or a moral crusade.
The Guardian
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A sanctimonious note was detectable in most coverage and normally sober RTE radio displayed astonishing, lavatorial prurience.
The Irish Times
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The tetchy nature of the meetings and their particular familial feel has a prurience off of its own.
The Irish Times
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The anonymous subjects are all prostitutes (left), but there is no hint of prurience, or prudery.
The Irish Times
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