lasciviousness

Gentiles -- heathen: which many of you were. when, &c. -- "walking as ye have done [Alford] in lasciviousness"; the

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The time past our lives may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, 1 Pet. iv.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

The elegance which she wished to introduce was termed lasciviousness; yet I do not find that the absence of gallantry renders the wives more chaste, or the husbands more constant.

Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003

They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manóbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

There are instances of debauched and shameless old age which, deficient in vital resources, strives to supply their place by fictitious excitement; a kind of brutish lasciviousness, that is ever the more cruelly punished by nature, from the fact that the immediately-ensuing debility is in direct proportion to the forced stimulation which has preceded it.

Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

The elegance which she wished to introduce was termed lasciviousness; yet I do not find that the absence of gallantry renders the wives more chaste, or the husbands more constant.

Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Mary Wollstonecraft 1778

We may also reply that "lasciviousness" relates to certain acts circumstantial to the venereal act, for instance kisses, touches, and so forth.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

Words in the Bible, such as "lasciviousness" and so on, have started mere school children asking questions to which probably they only got distorted answers from other school children.

Men Women and God Arthur Herbert Gray 1912

The monk Ordericus Vitalis, in the eleventh century, notes what he calls the "lasciviousness" of the wives of the Norman conquerors of England who, when left alone at home, sent messages that if their husbands failed to return speedily they would take new ones.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899