lustihood

[ luhs-tee-hood ]

noun

1. lustiness; vigor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lustihood¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; lusty + -hood

Example Sentences

Too-Toothless Senility may jeer, and poor, positive Propriety may shake her rusty curls; but I am here in my creamy lustihood, to pipe of Passion's venturous Poesy, and reap the scorching harvest of Self-Love!

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His port nevertheless was erect, and his step as firm as in his days of lustihood.

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Even the vigour and lustihood of its maturity are quick passing away.

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It is youth rejoicing in its strength and lustihood, enjoying the delights of spring, laughing at death, taking the pleasures of the moment, deriding the rumores senum severiorum, unmasking hypocrisy in high places, at wanton war with constituted social shams.

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To be sure, one could manage to creep to the other side by the submerged coping of the parapet, if endowed with the balancing powers of a rope-walker and the lustihood of the navvy.

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