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G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. 1. Pleasure " Lust and jollity." Chaucer. 2. Inclination; desire. For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall. 3. Longing desire;

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G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. 1. Pleasure " Lust and jollity." Chaucer. 2. Inclination; desire. For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall. 3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain. The lust of reigning. Milton. 4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton. 5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. Bacon.

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  • WARMTH
    The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
  • AUGER
    nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
  • FEELINGLY
    In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • FEELER
    One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
  • ANIMATION
    1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
  • PASSIONLESS
    Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
  • DESIREFUL
    Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
  • WARMTHLESS
    Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge.
  • FEELING
    1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
  • EMOTIONALIZE
    To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
  • EMOTIONALISM
    The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
  • DESIRE
    sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
  • DESIRER
    One who desires, asks, or wishes.
  • EMOTIONED
    Affected with emotion. "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott.
  • FEEL
    f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over
  • DESIRELESS
    Free from desire. Donne.
  • DESIREFULNESS
    The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
  • PASSIONATE
    1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
  • PASSIONARY
    A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • SAUGER
    An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
  • INANIMATION
    Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
  • GAUGER
    One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • REANIMATION
    The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival.
  • MISFEELING
    Insensate. Wyclif.
  • IMPASSIONABLE
    Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
  • IMPASSIONATE
    Strongly affected. Smart.
  • EMPASSION
    To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • IMPASSION
    To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.
  • DISPASSIONED
    Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne.

 

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