Word of the Day – Concupiscence

Concupiscence (noun)

kon-coop-is-ens

Strong sexual desire; lust.

Middle English via Old French from late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscent- ‘beginning to desire’, from the verb concupiscere, from con- (expressing intensive force) + cupere ‘to desire’.

Example sentences

“His life was one long battle against his own concupiscence.”