slovodefinícia
covetousness
(encz)
covetousness,dychtivost Jaroslav Šedivý
covetousness
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covetousness,žádostivost n: Zdeněk Brož
Covetousness
(gcide)
Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing
some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
-- in a bad sense.
[1913 Webster]

Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess
itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat.

Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
[1913 Webster]
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]
podobné slovodefinícia
Covetousness
(gcide)
Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
1. Strong desire. [R.]
[1913 Webster]

When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing
some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money;
-- in a bad sense.
[1913 Webster]

Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess
itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat.

Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
[1913 Webster]

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