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How to use concupiscence in a sentence

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Marvell attacks the concupiscence of the King's mistress, Lady Castlemaine, twice in Last Instructions to a Painter.
Her eyes were wild with concupiscence, and her hair spilled around them like a screen of privacy.
And what could be more objectifying of women than speaking as though birth control were something that only served male concupiscence?
I find it wonderful to consider, from times so long ago, the envy of Cain, the concupiscence of Delilah, the fidelity and failure of Lot.
But sin, taking occasion by the Commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.
It's a deep fear and a sort of intellectual concupiscence since it's easy for me to believe, despite the promises of Christ.
A Friend of the Cross is an all-powerful king, a champion who triumphs over the devil, the world and the flesh in their three-fold concupiscence.
The struggle against such concupiscence entails purifying the heart and practicing the virtue of temperance.
The ninth commandment requires that one overcome carnal concupiscence in thought and in desire.
In fact, because of original sin, man's reason has been obscured, and his will is wounded by concupiscence.
Hermes, with the petasus on his head, in a threatening attitude and with clenched fists, seems animated by a violent passion of anger or concupiscence.
I refuse, anyway, to show the Italian family where the shop is on the grounds that their daughters should not be encouraged in their avidity, their conventionality, and their Grazia-driven concupiscence.
He has taken into himself our wealth, our concupiscence, all the sins of the world that we had accumulated, and returned with them to the world, that we might be made righteous in the eyes of God.
Original Sin and concupiscence affect the other original experiences.
When they realize their concupiscence won't be satisfied, they leave.
Of man dominated by concupiscence or of man redeemed by Christ?
As Walter John Harmon took our evil unto himself, we had emerged newborn, with our addictions, our concupiscence, and our depthless greed lifted from us.
At the association, Fleur observes chicanery and concupiscence at close range, but seems less distressed by its director's inclination to blackmail than by his preference for fact over fiction: What is truth?
Thus, there, in that delectable mansion, accompanied with his beauties, he lurked in secrecy for the Grail Knights in order to drag them into concupiscence, which inevitably conduces people towards the infernal worlds.
Here, as a relief from all this exhibition's sweatiness, is dusky shadow, which acts as a poignant foil to the knocking shop in which the scene of concupiscence takes place.
Examples from Classical Literature
But they will eventually have to pay a grievous penalty for their concupiscence.
We might best define concupiscence as the tendency to pursue the goods of creation out of due order.
On the other hand, sexuality was judged to be disordered by concupiscence derived from original sin.
Esau's concupiscence is too strong to admit knowledge that transcends time and place.
Is it not most mighty, both in concupiscence and in disgust?
And what may you mean by concupiscence, most learned Theban?
And if any one wishes to injure thee, lay that to his concupiscence.
The concupiscence of princes was serialised for the mirth of the crowd.
I could not look at her without feeling the sting of concupiscence.
It has been truly said that the concupiscence of the eye outlives desire.
To say that marriage is also a licit remedy of concupiscence is no excuse.
For concupiscence is the source of all our movements, and humanity, etc.
Carnal concupiscence, as a broad category, is denounced as a usurpation of teleology because of its objectification of the subject and its emphasis on the phenomenal world.
Poor Miss Tita's sense of her failure had produced an extraordinary alteration in her, but I had been too full of my literary concupiscence to think of that.
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