lasciviousness
nounUK /ləˈsɪvɪ.əsnəs/ · US /ləˈsɪvi.əsnəs/
Etymology From lascivious + -ness.
1
The characteristic or state of being lascivious.
- For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed euill thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, / Thefts, couetouſneſſe, wickedneſſe, deceit, laſciuiouſneſſe, an euill eye, blaſphemie, pride, fooliſhneſſe: / All theſe euill things come from within, and defile the man.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 7:21–23, column 1:
- Diodorus Siculus bears out this, and states that the goat was made a god on account of its genital member and lasciviousness.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 29: