A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
Seeing Leslie fills me with a passionate lust.
A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
The boarders hide their lust to go home.
A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.
From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-West Germanic *lustu, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, ...
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He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […]
To desire.
And I ſaye vnto you that helias ys come alredy / and they knewe hym nott: butt have done vnto him whatſoever they luſted.