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Avaritia

noun
1.
Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).  Synonyms: avarice, covetousness, greed, rapacity.






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"Avaritia" Quotes from Famous Books



... follower. He prefers Bad Angel, who leads him straight to Mundus; the latter orders his friends Voluptas and Stultitia to take him in hand. Detractio, who calls himself Backbiter, is also made one of his train, and procures him the acquaintance of Avaritia, by whom he is introduced to the other Deadly Sins: not long after, he meets with Luxuria, and falls in love with her. At all this Bad Angel exults, but Good Angel mourns, and sends Confessio to Humanum Genus, who repels him at first, as having ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson



Words linked to "Avaritia" :   deadly sin, mortal sin, rapacity, avarice, covetousness



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