covetousness

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And again it was said, "He who uses the crown of the law for external aims fades away In describing the principles of non-remuneration to the Scribes, the learned German Professor Schurer says: "In Christ's censures of the Scribes and Pharisees, their covetousness is a special object of reproof.

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  1. Strong desire; eagerness. [Rare or obsolete.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak., K. John, iv. 2.
  2. The character of being covetous, in an evil sense; a strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing something, without regard to law or justice; overbearing avarice. Both parties had an inordinate desire to have that they had not, and that is covetousness. Latimer, Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, … covetousness. Mark vii. 22. The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things than in expenses of any consequence. Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects.
  3. Synonyms Avarice, Cupidity, etc. (see avarice), greediness, hankering.

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avarice ·  cupidity ·  gluttony ·  ingratitude ·  dishonesty ·  meanness ·  greed ·  profligacy ·  wantonness ·  envy ·  greediness ·  hypocrisy
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  1. from covetous + -ness. The Middle English equivalent term was covetise, q. v.
 

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