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covetousness
(encz) | covetousness,dychtivost Jaroslav Šedivý |
covetousness
(encz) | covetousness,žádostivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Covetousness
(gcide) | Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.]
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When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.
--Shak.
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2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing
some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
-- in a bad sense.
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Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess
itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat.
Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
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covetousness
(wn) | covetousness
n 1: an envious eagerness to possess something
2: extreme greed for material wealth [syn: avarice,
avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity]
3: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
(personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice,
greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia] |
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