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avarice
/ˈævɚəs/
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What does avarice mean?
noun
- Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
- Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
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Are not popular assemblies frequently subject to the impulses of rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and of other irregular and violent propensities?
For by luxury, drunkenness, lust, avarice, ambition, &c., we simply mean the immoderate love of feasting, drinking, venery, riches, and fame.
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I was intoxicated with wine and pleasure, when I, on this occasion, entered a haunt of ruin and enterprising avarice in Pall Mall.
At length corruption, like a general flood, Did deluge all, and avarice creeping on, Spread, like a low-born mist, and hid the sun.
Never does avarice overreach itself more completely than when plants are permitted to bear the same season in which they are set out.