Word to the Wise: Concupiscence

By Early To Rise | Wed, Mar 19, 2008 |

  

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“Concupiscence” (kon-KYOO-puh-sunts) – from the Latin for “to desire eagerly” – is lust. The name of the Roman god of love – Cupid – is derived from the same root.

Example (as used by John Updike in Gertrude and Claudius): “Within three years Rorik’s queen was dead, taking with her into silence her midnight cries of release from that captivity of concupiscence which Eve’s curious sin has laid upon mankind.”

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