Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as lustihood.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete See lustihood.

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  • noun obsolete Lustfulness, delight; licentiousness.

Etymologies

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From Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed, equivalent to lusty +‎ -head. Compare lustihood.

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Examples

  • 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

  • As Homer is the first vigour and lustihead, Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry.

    English literary criticism Various

  • 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

  • Eke I in grief shall ever mourn and yearn, * Dwelling on days of love and lustihead;

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • 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

  • 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

  • 4 Like a young squire, in loves and lustihead lustihead > libidinousness, pleasure; lustfulness

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

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