Sunday, January 11, 2015

word of the day: concupiscence

The word of the day is concupiscence:
 
1. sexual desire; lust.
2. ardent, usually sensuous, longing.
Late Latin concupīscentia (dictionary.com)


"I glimpsed a scintilla of concupiscence in his averted face."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative

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