[f. as prec. + -NESS.] Lustful condition or character; † delight, pleasurableness (obs.); libidinousness.

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a. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., I. xvi. [xxvii.] (1890), 86. Seo lustfulnes bið þurh lichoman.

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c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 21. For þa licome lustfulnesse … we ne maȝen … halden crist bibode.

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1611.  Cotgr., Miesuresse, incontinencie … lustfulnesse.

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1654.  Gataker, Disc. Apol., 56. The heat of lustfulness abates by degrees, and waxeth old with old age.

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1893.  in Barrows, Parl. Relig., II. 896. The avoidance of cruelty, lying, lustfulness [etc.].

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