edacity

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The edacity of jealousy is unappeasable:

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  1. Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. It is true that the wolf is a beast of great edacitie and digestion. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 972. If thou have any vendible faculty, nay, if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come. Carlyle.

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  • The edacity of jealousy is unappeasable: —  Hints for Lovers
  • Disgust and edacity; laziness that cannot rest; futile ambition, revenge, non-admiralship: -- O, within that carbuncled skin what a confusion of confusions sits bottled! —  The French Revolution
  • Come whosesoever head is hot; thou of mind ungoverned, be it chaos as of undevelopment or chaos as of ruin; the man who cannot get known, the man who is too well known; if thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come! —  The French Revolution
  • 12. edacity —  A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes
 

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  1. = Italian edacità, from Latin edacita(t-)s, from edax, giving to eating: see edacious.
 

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