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Lasciviousness ( late Latin : lascivitas = willfulness ; debauchery) is a noun used in educational language for the adjective lascivious , which has its origins in French for 'lewd, indecent, slippery'. It was borrowed into the German language in the 19th century . In French it is synonymous with lascif and was formed in the 15th century through a relatinization from the Latin lascīvus 'willful, cocky, unbridled, cheeky'. The Duden defines today's educational use of lascivious in the meanings: "to spread sensuality through artificial sleepiness ", which can trigger sexual desire in "other people", as well as ambiguous for "offensive, indecent, slippery".
The lascivious was also the subject of art history and art criticism . For example, the art historians Wilhelm Lübke and Max Semrau wrote in their work The Art in the Renaissance :
“The glory of the human body, to which the monastic-influenced art of the Middle Ages had mostly closed its eyes, was now revealed under the stimuli of antiquity; In the good times of the Renaissance it was taken seriously and severely, as a mirror of the soul, and only the later epoch saw the degeneration into the lavish and lascivious. "
literature
- Elke Ullrich: The lasciviousness of chastity in European art. "The wife of Potiphar" and "Joseph of Egypt"; a cultural history of attempted seduction . University Press, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-89958-473-8 (plus dissertation, University of Kassel 2007).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lasciviousness , duden.de, accessed on February 16, 2016
- ↑ lascivious. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved February 16, 2016
- ↑ lascivious in duden.de, accessed on February 16, 2016
- ↑ online in Google Books , reprint of the original from 1911.