salacity

Example Sentences

• "One of the males is sufficient in procreation for seuen or nine of the females, and by that means they are made more fruitful, but if you put them one male to one femal, then will the venereous salacity of the male procure abortment."
• "Aristotle gives instance in sparrows, which are parum vivaces ob salacitatem, short-lived because of their salacity, which is very frequent […]"
• "The Portugueze, tho’ eminently abſtemious and temperate in all other Things, are unbounded in their Luſts; and perhaps they ſubſtitute the former in room of a Surgeon, as a Counterpoiſon to the Miſchiefs of a promiſcuous Salacity: They have moſt of them Venereal Taints, and with Age become meager and hectick: […]"
• "She had had no experience with this class of individuals whatsoever, and did not know the salacity and humour of the theatrical tribe."
• "Although it would have been allowed, I did not keep a journal over those six months. From the start I saw that what I wanted to say, although ‘hereafter, in a better world than this’ it might find other readers and do its good, would have brought nothing but scorn and salacity at the time."
• "The editors of the Unitarian New Version of the New Testament, who very modestly wish to shovel all these spurcities and salacities out of the sacred text, have the impudence to tell us, in a note, that they were interpolated to lessen the odium attached to Christianity […]"