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concupiscence
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What does concupiscence mean?
noun
- An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
- the desire of a person's lower appetite, contrary to reason, which subjugates and inclines them to experience temptation and to give in to sin, due to the Fall and original sin.
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St. Jerome and others of the ancient fathers allege this infirmity of Paul’s to have been some physical defect, or concupiscence.
He will fast, watch, and labour, just as much as he sees to suffice for keeping down the wantonness and concupiscence of the body.
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There is no man wholly free from temptations so long as he liveth, because we have the root of temptation within ourselves, in that we are born in concupiscence.
Hereupon the doctors cry out: what must the female appetite and concupiscence be, when their reason, their reformation and virtue, are taxed at such a rate, considering the divers judgments of our appetites?