Lusting ppl. a.

[f. LUST v. + -ING².] That lusts; having lustful desires.

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1559. T. Brice, Compend. Reg., Wishes Wise, ii. When shall the minde bee moued right To leaue hys lustyng life?

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1591. Greene, Maidens Dream, in Shaks. Soc. Papers (1845), II. 138. The lusting humor of the eyes … Could not allure his mind to think of vice.

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1844. W. H. Mill, Serm. Tempt. Christ, iv. 91. The hopes of good which the lusting eye conceived in them while distant.

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1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 118. The tyrannical man … is just a drinking, lusting, furious sort of animal.

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