† lickerousnessn.
Obsolete.
Fondness for good fare; gen. keen appetite or desire. Const. of, after, infinitive with to. Also, lecherousness.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [noun]
lickerousnessc1380
avaricec1386
avidityc1449
zealc1451
eagerness1486
greediness1553
anxiety1555
lickerishness1580
inhiation1608
exoptation1633
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > gastronomy > [noun]
lickerousnessc1380
lickerousheadc1450
lickerishness1580
friandise1603
epicurisma1620
gastrology1810
gastronomy1814
gastrophilism1814
gormandize1814
esuriency1819
gourmanderie1823
deipnosophism1824
gastrosophy1824
aristology1835
gourmandism1850
gourmetism1853
opsophagy1854
fine dining1940
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [noun] > lecherousness or lechery
lecheryc1230
lecherheda1325
lickerousnessc1380
lecherness?c1510
caterwauling1530
ruttery1567
cockishness1573
palliardise1581
routerya1600
salacity1605
saltness1611
catting1681
tomcatting1886
whorehopping1916
skirt patrol1941
skirt-chasing1950
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 61 Likerousnesse & lustis of here bely.
c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 611 Venus me yaf my lust, my likerousnesse.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋667 Auarice..is likerousnesse in herte to haue erthely thynges.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 304/2 Lykerowsnesse, delicacia.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Pp4 Whether..the likorousnes of dominion [can] make you beyond iustice.
a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. 128 As perhaps licorousness of Wine before had caused many of them to do.
1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 129 A people..so given over to licorousnesse, that it is an hard thing to get a Cook to please them.
1665 J. Spencer Disc. Vulgar Prophecies 119 That natural liquorousness in the minds of men after the knowledg of things to come.
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