Covetousness

/kˈʌvətəsnəs/

/kˈʌvəɾəsnəs/

[noun]

Covetousness

[NOUN]

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

synonyms : avarice

avaritia

greed

rapacity

an envious eagerness to possess something

extreme greed for material wealth

synonyms : avarice

avariciousness

cupidity

Examples

1. And they prohibit murder and adultery and robbery, false testimony and covetousness.

2. And, at the same time, the opposite virtues of falsehood, covetousness, worldly flesh, and the devil became the antagonists.

3. She continues after a while with this-- about once again the language of covetousness and moral language about what happens in the world and we move on to Canto XXVIII.

4. They believed that this would get rid of competitiveness and covetousness and that through congress with each other's bodies, they could become closer to God.

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