lust after
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To have strong sexual feelings or desires for someone with whom the individual is not in a relationship with.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt."
- "But I ſay vnto you / that whoſoever eyeth a wyfe / luſtynge affter her / hathe committed advoutrie with her alredy in his hert."
- "But Paridell of loue did make no threaſure, / But luſted after all, that him did moue."
- "The women are for courage, Amazonian, and of ſuch account with their tyrannique Lords, that the ſafeguard of their bodies are committed ſometimes to their care, oft to their valours, but moſt to enioy perpetually their company. For ſocietie with that ſex, is much luſted after by all inflamed Aſiatiques."
- "Thy name is a curse in Israel; yet dost thou lust after the daughter of our despised race, and, could defeated passion sting thee, I were avenged."
- "David Buss, of the University of Michigan, another evolutionary psychologist of the unerring Nicene Creed, has said that asking a man not to lust after a pretty young woman is like telling a carnivore not to like meat."