Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inordinate desire of gaining and possessing wealth; covetousness; cupidity; greediness, or insatiable desire of gain.
- noun Synonyms Avarice, Covetousness, Cupidity, penuriousness, closeness, miserliness, all denote bad qualities, corruptions of the natural instinct of possession. Avarice, literally greediness, a strong desire to get objects of value, has become limited, except in figurative uses, so as to express only a sordid and mastering desire to get wealth. Covetousness and cupidity are not limited to wealth, but may have for their object anything that can be desired, cupidity being directed especially toward material things. Covetousness longs to possess that which belongs to another; hence the prohibition in the tenth commandment (Ex. xx. 17). Cupidity is more active than the others, less groveling, and more ready to snatch from others that which covetousness may wish for without trying to get. See
penurious .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness for wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
- noun An inordinate desire for some supposed good.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Excessive orinordinate desire of gain;greediness after wealth;covetousness ;cupidity . - noun Inordinate desire for some
supposed good.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- noun extreme greed for material wealth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Zoretti was an Italian nobleman -- "one of those characters in whose bosom resides an unquenchable thirst of avarice" [ "_thirst_ of _avarice_" is good!], etc.
The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889
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They say at the end “we hate expencive” the last year it was “avarice is wicked” or somethin like that translated. hope I could help
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving, and dedicated to an entity, which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving, and dedicated to an entity, which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving, and dedicated to an entity, which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving and dedicated to an entity which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
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After all the horror stories about victims of insurane company abuse, the blatant display of avarice is contemptible and cruel.
Think Progress » WellPoint CEO receives a 51 percent increase in compensation. 2010
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Considering the Bible clearly states that total dedication to money, avarice, is the root of all evil, this means the world is serving, and dedicated to an entity, which is an anathema to the very nature of God.
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Vanity, not avarice, is my ruling passion; and so long as young men write to me from America saying that they would rather part with their hair than with their copy of my book, I do not feel the need of food and drink.
I’m with Wendy Cope when she says… : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Asiatic cholera had its origin in English avarice and cruelty, as they suppose who trace it to the tax which Warren Hastings, when
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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April 29, 2008