different between concupiscent vs concupiscence

English

Etymology

From Latin concupiscens (stem concupiscent-), present participle of concup?sc? (“long for, covet”), inchoative of concupi? (“long for”), from con- + cupi? (“desire, wish for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?kju?p?.s?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??n?kju?p?.s?nt/, /k?n?kju?p?.s?nt/

Adjective

concupiscent (comparative more concupiscent, superlative most concupiscent)

1. Amorous; lustful.
   • 1894 — Plato's The Republic, Book VIII, translated by Benjamin Jowett

     Is not such an one likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous element on the vacant throne and to suffer it to play the great king within him, girt with tiara and chain and scimitar?

   • 1922 — Wallace Stevens, The Emperor of Ice Cream

     Call the roller of big cigars, / The muscular one, and bid him whip / In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.

Related terms

• concupiscence
• concupiscently
• concupiscible

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ky.pi.s??/

Adjective

concupiscent (feminine singular concupiscente, masculine plural concupiscents, feminine plural concupiscentes)

1. concupiscent

Related terms

• concupiscence

Further reading

• “concupiscent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

concup?scent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of concup?sc?

Romanian

Etymology

From French concupiscent

Adjective

concupiscent m or n (feminine singular concupiscent?, masculine plural concupiscen?i, feminine and neuter plural concupiscente)

1. concupiscent

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin concupiscentia, from concup?sc? (“I desire strongly, I desire eagerly; I covet”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?kju?p?s?ns/

Noun

concupiscence (countable and uncountable, plural concupiscences)

1. An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
   • 1994, Newsweek, winter

     Skaters, spinning like atoms across fields of pure light, are desirable in a way that transcends mere concupiscence; they inhabit another element, and the man who would try to catch one risks, literally, falling on his ass.

   • 1997, St. Augustine, The Confessions X, 30, 41. translated by Maria Boulding

     Quite certainly you command me to refrain from concupiscence of the flesh and concupiscence of the eyes and worldy pride.

2. (Roman Catholicism) the desire of a person's lower appetite contrary to reason that subjugates and inclines him or her to both experience temptation and to give into that temptation of sin, due to the Fall and original sin

Related terms

• concupiscent (adjective)

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin concupiscentia, from concup?sc? (“I desire strongly, I desire eagerly; I covet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.ky.pi.s??s/

Noun

concupiscence f (uncountable)

1. concupiscence

Further reading

• “concupiscence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).