Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); avarice; greed.
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- noun reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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Examples
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It must not, however, be confounded with greed, which is the most immediate meaning of the Latin word avaritia.
On Human Nature 2004
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Amys Welt » Blog Archive » Root cause for the economic crisis: avaritia says:
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Dietae salutis: avaritia est amor immoderatus pecuniae vel acquirendae, vel retinendae.
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Quem infirmum libido solicitat, aut avaritia, aut honores? nemini invidet, neminem miratur, neminem despicit, sermone maligno non alitur.
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Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia.
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Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio.
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'Tis proper to man alone, uni superbia, avaritia, superstitio, saith Plin. lib.
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Nihil facilius opes evertet, quam avaritia et fraude parta.
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Superbia major quam opulenti rustici, invidia quam luis venerae inimicitia nocentior melancholia, avaritia in immensum profunda.
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Nam quocunque modo causa procedat, hoc semper agitur, ut loculi impleantur, etsi avaritia nequit satiari.
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