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covetousness

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˈkʌvətəsnəs/Part of speech nounSorted ceenoossstuvStarts with CEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Word origin

From Middle English covatusnes, covetousnes, coveytousnesse; equivalent to covetous + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • He which will yield to Fear. muſt neceſſarily yield to Covetouſneſs or any inordinate Deſire.
  • Covetouſneſs is the yelow Jaundice of the foul, which ariſes from the over-flowing of the heart with love to yellow gold, by which a Chriſtian is dull'd and deadned.
  • Covetousness prevents all good, and is and inlet and encouragement to evil.

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