Another word for lechery

He complained that exhortation was wasted even on the bishops, "because they despair of attaining to the pinnacle of chastity, and have no fear of condemnation in open synod for the vice of lechery....

Reay suggests that it embodied notions of cerebral lechery and the ideal of male continence that was characteristic of Munby's age and class.

As the great canonist Gratian remarked on a similar decretal of Pope Pelagius, "Here is a case where lechery has more rights at law than has chastity" (Decret.