Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Desire or pleasure more generally.
Modern meaning
Sexual desire.
Research lens
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Meaning trail
Root
pleasure or desire
A broad appetite term.
Middle path
strong appetite
Intensity increased before specificity did.
Now
sexual desire
The field narrowed under moral framing.