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lustiness|ˈlʌstɪnɪs|
Also 5–6 lustines, -ynes(se.
[f. lusty + -ness.]
†1. Pleasantness, pleasure, delight. Also, beauty of attire (cf. lusty a. 2 b). Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 128 (177) Beth glad and draweth yow to lustynesse. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xx. (1859) 28 Thou myght..euer abyde in ioye and lustynesse. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxiv. 2 Delytsum lyllie of everie lustynes. a1547Surrey in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 3 The sonne hath twise brought furth his tender grene, And clad the earth in liuely lustinesse. a1550in Dunbar's Poems 327 Dewoyd langour, and leif in lustines.
2. Vigour, robustness; † energy, activity.
c1325Song of Mercy 160 in E.E.P. (1862) 123 And lustines his leue haþ take. We loue so slouþe and harlotrie. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1282 And after daunced..Youthe, fulfild of lustinesse. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv i. 58 That other [tree] drye withoute ony maner lustynesse or verdure. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xl. (Percy Soc.) 203 My youth was past, and all my lustynes. 1607Markham Caval. i. (1617) 33 For a Horse..of youth, strength and lustinesse, eight Mares are a full number. 1740Dyer Ruins of Rome 476 For now the frame no more is girt with strength Masculine, nor in lustiness of heart Laughs at the winter storm. 1863Kinglake Crimea II. ix. (1877) 102 He had too much lustiness of mind..to be capable of living on terms of close intelligence with the..statesmen of Berlin.
†3. Lustfulness; carnal nature or character.
c1400Rom. Rose 5118 Whan thou hast..spent thy youthe in ydilnesse, In waste, and woful lustinesse. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (Camden) 247 Lest the vice of concupiscence and lustiness..should..break forth. 1580Frampton Dial. Yron & Steele 160 The powders of it [steele] are..good for the Gonorea passio, and for the lustinesse of man. 1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. x. §5 (1622) 111 When the heate of that lust and lustinesse is past, and they be come againe vnto their cold blood. |