lust after

Verb

lust after (third-person singular simple present lusts after, present participle lusting after, simple past and past participle lusted after)

1. (transitive) To have strong sexual feelings or desires for someone with whom the individual is not in a relationship with.
   • He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt.
   • But I ſay vnto you / that whoſoever eyeth a wyfe / luſtynge affter her / hathe committed advoutrie with her alredy in his hert.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew v:[28], folio vj, recto
2. (transitive, uncommon) To have a strong desire for something.
   • Yf the waye be to longe for the, ſo that thou art not able to carie it, becauſe the place is to farre from the whiche the Lorde thy God hath choſen to ſet his name there (for the Lorde thy God hath bleſſed the) then make it in money and take the money in thyne hande, and goo vnto the place which...1530 January 27 (Gregorian calendar), W[illiam] T[yndale], transl., [The Pentateuch] (Tyndale Bible), Malborow [Marburg], Hesse: […] Hans Luft [actually Antwerp: Johan Hoochstraten], →OCLC...
   • The declaration of Innocent III, that the whole people was condemned by God, on account of its guilt, to perpetual slavery, became the oft-cited Magna Charta for all those who lusted after the gains and possessions of the Jews; […]1882 June [1881 July 25], J[ohann Joseph Ignaz] von Döllinger, translated by W[illiam] M[ackintire] Salter, “The Jews in Europe”, in E[dward] L[ivingston] Youmans, W[illiam] J[ay] Youmans, editors...