Lechery meaning

lĕch'ə-rē
Lechery is defined as excessive or unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity or inappropriate sexual desires.

Old men lusting after and pursuing young women is an example of lechery.

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Excessive interest in or indulgence in sexual activity.
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A lecherous act.
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Unrestrained, excessive indulgence of sexual desires; gross sensuality; lewdness.
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Inordinate indulgence in sexual activity.
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Origin of lechery

Lechery Sentence Examples

  • He complained that exhortation was wasted even on the bishops, "because they despair of attaining to the pinnacle of chastity, and have no fear of condemnation in open synod for the vice of lechery....

  • Reay suggests that it embodied notions of cerebral lechery and the ideal of male continence that was characteristic of Munby's age and class.

  • As the great canonist Gratian remarked on a similar decretal of Pope Pelagius, "Here is a case where lechery has more rights at law than has chastity" (Decret.

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