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111immorality — I noun atrocity, bad repute, carnality, concupiscence, contamination, corruption, criminality, delinquency, demoralization, depravity, dissoluteness, evil, indecency, iniquity, knavery, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, loose morals, misdoing,… …
112Merchant’s Tale, The — by Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1394) The Merchant’s Tale is one of several CANTERBURY TALES in which CHAUCER explores the institution of marriage. The story follows The CLERK’S TALE of patient Griselda, and the Merchant narrator tells it largely… …
113Mirour de l’Omme — (Speculum hominis, Speculum meditantis) by John Gower (ca. 1376–1379) The Mirour de l’Omme (The Mirror of Mankind) is a lengthy moral treatise in French verse. It is the earliest significant work of the major English poet John Gower, and,… …
114Vox clamantis — by John Gower (ca. 1381–1400) John Gower’s second important work, Vox clamantis (The voice of one crying), is a poem of 10,265 lines of Latin elegiac verse. The title is taken from Isaiah and from John the Baptist, and implies the prophetic …
115animalism — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Marxism, animality, atomism, beastliness, behaviorism, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal mindedness, carnality, coarseness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, earthiness,… …
116animality — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Animalia, Gothicism, Neanderthalism, acuteness, and fish, animal kingdom, animal life, animalism, atrociousness, atrocity, barbarism, barbarity, barbarousness, bawdiness, beastliness, beasts, beasts of field,… …
117carnality — Synonyms and related words: Adam, Philistinism, amorality, animalism, animality, backsliding, bawdiness, beastliness, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal mindedness, clitoromania, coarseness, coldness, concupiscence,… …
118concupiscence — Synonyms and related words: andromania, animality, aphrodisia, ardor, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, clitoromania, curiosity, desideration, desire, dirtiness, drive, eagerness, eromania, eroticism,… …
119desire — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, address, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, aim, aim at, ambition, andromania, animus, aphrodisia, appeal, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, application, apply …
120eroticism — Synonyms and related words: andromania, animality, aphrodisia, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, clitoromania, concupiscence, desire, dirtiness, eromania, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania,… …
