lustless

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English lustles, equivalent to lust +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch lusteloos, German lustlos. Doublet of listless.

Adjective

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lustless (comparative more lustless, superlative most lustless)

  1. Without sexual lust.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, [], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
      By Mahomet, my Kinſmans ſepulcher,
      And by the holy Alcaron I ſweare,
      He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
      And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:
    • 1964, J Z Eglinton, Paul Goodman, Greek Love:
      But then, Bergler also claims that there are no genuinely ambi-erotic individuals, only "homosexuals who may be capable of lustless mechanical sex...
  2. (obsolete) Lacking vigour; weak, tame or spiritless.

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