Lascivious vs Fornication - What's the difference?
lascivious | fornication |
Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.
sexual intercourse, especially on the part of an unmarried person.
(legal) The act of such illicit sexual intercourse between a man and a woman which does not by law amount to adultery.
* 1604' ''I am the sister of one Claudio, Condemn'd upon the act of '''fornication To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo'' — Shakespeare, ''Measure for Measure , Act 5, Scene 1
* 1611' ''Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, '''fornication , uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. — Galatians 5:19-21 KJV