lust after

Definitions

1. 1

   To have strong sexual feelings or desires for someone with whom the individual is not in…

   To have strong sexual feelings or desires for someone with whom the individual is not in a relationship with.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To have a strong desire for something.

   • The declaration of Innocent III, that the whole people was condemned by God, on account of its guilt, to perpetual slavery, became the oft-cited Magna Charta for all those who lusted after the gains and possessions of the Jews; […]

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