Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LAS-CIV'I-OUS-NESS
LAS-CIV'I-OUS-NESS, n.
- Looseness; irregular indulgence of animal desires; wantonness; lustfulness. Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness. Eph. iv.
- Tendency to excite lust, and promote irregular indulgences. The reason pretended by Augustus was, the lasciviousness of his Elegies and his Art of Love. – Dryden.
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