http://wordie.org/words/concupiscence Comments for the word 'Concupiscence' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/concupiscence#comments "He too was dinnerless, but in this case it was voluntary and <a href="/words/prudential">prudential</a>, a penance for lusting after Laura Fielding and (he hoped) a means of reducing his <a href="/words/concupiscence">concupiscence</a>..."<br />--Patrick O'Brian, <i>Treason's Harbour</i>, 57 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 02:58:54 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/concupiscence#comments http://wordie.org/words/concupiscence#comments From Seamus Deane's notes on Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:<br /><br />"Concupiscence is the appetite of the fallen state. It is an incentive to sin, not a sin in itself." Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:27:16 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/concupiscence#comments