Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lustihood .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete See
lustihood .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Lustfulness ,delight ;licentiousness .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But he had overmuch drunken and the best word he could have of him was that he would ever dishonest a woman whoso she were or wife or maid or leman if it so fortuned him to be delivered of his spleen of lustihead.
Ulysses 2003
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As Homer is the first vigour and lustihead, Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry.
English literary criticism Various
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But he had overmuch drunken and the best word he could have of him was that he would ever dishonest a woman whoso she were or wife or maid or leman if it so fortuned him to be delivered of his spleen of lustihead.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Eke I in grief shall ever mourn and yearn, * Dwelling on days of love and lustihead;
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Thou seest, Lusca, that I am in the prime of my youth and lustihead, and have neither lack nor stint of all such things as folk desire, save only, to be brief, that I have one cause to repine, to wit, that my husband's years so far outnumber my own.
The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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However, being restored to health and lustihead, he kept his hate to himself and feigned himself more than ever enamoured of his widow.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344
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4 Like a young squire, in loves and lustihead lustihead > libidinousness, pleasure; lustfulness
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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