[f. LUST v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb LUST in its various senses.
a. 1300. Seven Sins, viii. in E. E. P. (1862), 18. Þat me giue lif and gode ending and to ȝou ȝiue gode lusting in þis silue place.
1580. Sidney, Ps. XXXVII. iii. Delight in God, and he shall breede The fullnesse of thy own hartes lusting.
1677. Gilpin, Demonol. (1867), 73. Paul’s persecution, though a real gratification of his envious lustings, by his blinded understanding was judged duty.
1760. Law, Spirit of Prayer, I. 54. By the flesh, and its lustings, are meant … the natural man, as he is by the fall.
