Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
avid : as, “avidious greedinesse,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Avid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
avid ;eager ;greedy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bending like a cat, she would gaze into his eyes with her dark glance, in which something avidious would now flash up.
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From time to time he paused from copying, stole silently to the door between the offices, gingerly removed a loose knot from a panel, and clapped to the hole first one, and then the other avidious brown eye.
Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921
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Bending like a cat, she would gaze into his eyes with her dark glance, in which something avidious would now flash up.
The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902
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But what else could be expected of a people, among whom vulgarisms of speech are staple topics of conversation, where obscene allusions are listened to with avidious relish by the young and old of both sexes, and where there is such moral laxity among all classes as to transcend every semblance of decency?
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Johnnie's avidious little claw reached out eagerly.
Pearl of Pearl Island John Oxenham 1896
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a loose knot from a panel, and clapped to the hole first one, and then the other avidious brown eye.
Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909
Jimmydiamond commented on the word avidious
a sighted element that invokes a stiring feeling inside, ...emotion
September 21, 2012