Middle English Dictionary Entry
concūpiscence, -encie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | concūpiscence, -encie n. |
| Etymology | L concupiscentia & OF concupiscence. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
- c1390(?c1350) SVrn.Leg.Barlaam (Vrn)215/44 : He him tolde..Þat wraþþe hit was and concupiscence.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.336-7 : This concupiscence, whan it is wrongfully disposed or ordeyned in man, it maketh hym coueite by coueitise of flessh flesshly synne, by sighte of hise eyen as to erthely thynges, and eek coueitise of heynesse by pride of herte..concupiscence after the lawe of oure membres, that weren lawefulliche ymaked and by rightful iugement of god.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)8.293 : Likinge and concupiscence..The fader so with lustes blente, That he caste..His oghne doghter forto spille.
- (c1422) Hoccl.JWife (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)176 : The wrecchid flessh..robbith the soule of hir clothes..by wikkid concupiscences.
- c1440(?a1396) ?Hilton Angels' Song (Thrn)16/6 : A saule þat haues..ouercommen and dystroyede concupyscens and passiouns and vnskillwyse styrrynges with-in it-selfe.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)107 : The world passith [and its] concupiscens..whethir had thou leuer loue the temperell worlde [etc.].
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)24/5 : The schaame that eueri man suffrithe bi the condicione of schrewis..lettithe þe concupiscence of thaime.
- c1450 Alph.Tales (Add 25719)518/5 : He made hym selfe blynd, for he mot not se wommen withowten concupiscens.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)6.27 : He ordeynede..a statute..to please the concupiscence of man.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)90/30 : Ther ben thre powers of the sowle: scilicet, yre, concupyscencye, and reson.
- a1500 GRom.(Add 9066)58 : Auctor of concupiscence of eyen is the world; and auctor of concupiscence of the flessh art thou thi self, that livest delicatly.
- a1500 St.Aug.Contemptu Mundi (Hrl 1706)374 : Men..lede alle her dayes in lustys and lykyngges after þe wylle of her concupyscence.