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lustest

lustest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lust.

Meaning of lust

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase lust after) To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
    • He then thought that all the sins which he had ever committed were personified, and that they all cried out against him. One cried out, I am thy lust, with which thou formerly lustedst unlawfully, and against the precepts of God: […]1845, Samuel Fox, “Anglo[-]Saxon Monks. Theodore. A Monastic Vision. […]”, in Monks and Monasteries; Being an Account of English Monarchism (The Englishman’s Library; XXVIII), London: James Burns...
  2. (archaic, intransitive, transitive, usually, for, to) To desire.
    • And I ſaye vnto you that helias ys come alredy / and they knewe hym nott: butt have done vnto him whatſoever they luſted.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xvij:[12], folio xxiiij, recto

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Origin of lustest

lust + -est

Questions about lustest

What is lustest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lustest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lust.

Words near lustest in the dictionary

  1. lusterlessness
  2. lusterous
  3. lusters
  4. lusterware
  5. lusterwares
  6. lustest
  7. lusteth
  8. lustful
  9. lustfull
  10. lustfully
  11. lustfulness

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