COVETOUSNESSES

Noun

covetousnesses

plural of covetousness

Source: Wiktionary


COVETOUSNESS

Cov"et*ous*ness, n.

1. Strong desire. [R.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak.

2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.

Syn.

– Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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