KJV Dictionary Definition: lasciviency

lasciviency

LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT. Not used. See the next words.

lascivient

LASCIVIENCY, LASCIVIENT. Not used. See the next words.

lascivious

LASCIV'IOUS, a. L. lascivus, from laxus, laxo, to relax, to loosen.

1. Loose; wanton; lewd; lustful; as lascivious men; lascivious desires; lascivious eyes.

2. Soft; wanton; luxurious.

He capers numbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

lasciviously

LASCIV'IOUSLY, adv. Loosely; wantonly; lewdly.

lasciviousness

LASCIV'IOUSNESS, n.

1. Looseness; irregular indulgence of animal desires; wantonness; lustfulness.

Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lasciviousness. Eph. 4.

2. Tendency to excite lust, and promote irregular indulgences.

The reason pretended by Augustus was, the lasciviousness of his Elegies and his Art of Love.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

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