luxure

In the Middle Ages, the French noun luxure meant “overabundance” or “debauchery” and was associated with the deadly sins.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

In the Middle Ages, the French noun luxure meant “overabundance” or “debauchery” and was associated with the deadly sins.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Le sang de nos freres noir a coulé pour avoir denoncé le vole à grande échelle par ces présidents impis dont le goût de la luxure est son gêne.

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The translation reads well, in spite of a number of perhaps misleading archaisms or gallicisms, such as 'luxury' for 'lust' (luxure) and 'inconsequent' for 'inconsistent' (inconséquent).

King Phallus Weightman, John 1965

_La recherche du terme vivant, sa mise en valeur et en saveur, la surabondance des vocables puisés à toutes sources ... la condensation de l'action autour de ces quelques motifs éternels de l'épopée: combat, ripaille, palabre et luxure_, there, as she sees justly, are links with Rabelais.

Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905

Stryge, and its demoniac leer, "insatiable vampire, l'eternelle luxure."

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

[314] Asmodeus, according to his usual station in the infernal hierarchy, is _démon de la luxure_: but any fears or hopes which may be aroused by this description, and the circumstances of the action, will be disappointed.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

De toutes façons, cette émission est le comble de l'impudeur et de la luxure, et c'est pour ça qu'on regarde non?

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