Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Greediness; voracity; excessive appetite for food.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Excessive appetite;
greediness ;voracity ;gluttony .
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Examples
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"gulosity" rather than superstition; moreover, these barbarians had certain abominable practices, supposed to be known only to the most advanced races.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity.
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Stade: old travellers attribute the cannibalism of the Brazilian races to “gulosity” rather than superstition; moreover, these barbarians had certain abominable practices, supposed to be known only to the most advanced races.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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It is then that their true nature is exposed, mired in gulosity and superciliousness as they become.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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Immanuel Kant was almost the only profound speculative thinker who was decidedly convivial, and given to gulosity, at least at his dinner.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity [2].
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another!
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months; sees only lie unfold itself from lie; corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Then a woman called Jenny McPherson, who had in early life, like "a good Scotch louse," who "aye travels south," found her way from Lochaber to London, where she had got into George's kitchen, and learned something better than to make sour kraut, was the individual who administered to her master's epicureanism, if not gulosity.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, -- if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy?
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
whichbe commented on the word gulosity
Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity; gluttony.
May 15, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word gulosity
JM has great gulosity for his exchanges with some folk
February 1, 2009
jaime_d commented on the word gulosity
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: "Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months; sees only lie unfold itself from lie; corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger. "
March 6, 2011