Weorold-lust

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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m. Worldly pleasure, pleasure that comes from things of this world:-- Hú ne is ðé genóg openlíce geeówad ðara leásena gesǽlþa anlícnes; ðæt is ðonne ǽhta and weorðscipe and anweald and woruldlust. Be ðam woruldluste Epicurus sǽde . . . ðaet se lust wǽre ðæt héhste gód habes igitur ante oculos propositam fere formam felicitatis humanae, opes, honores, potentiam, voluptates. Quae considerans Epicurus sibi summum bonum voluptatem esse constituit, Bt. 24, 3; Fox 84, 19-23: 24, 4; Fox 86, 29. For ðam ðe hé mæg ðurh ðæt tó anwealde cuman oððe tó sumum woruldluste vel potentiae caussa, vel delectationis, 24, 3; Fox 82, 34. [O. Sax. werold-lust: O. H. Ger. weralt-lust terrena concupiscentia.] weorold-lust