Avarice meaning
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Too great a desire to have wealth; cupidity.
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Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.
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Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
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The definition of avarice means greed or a great a desire to be rich.
An example of avarice is deciding which college degree to get and which job to take based only on the expected salary.
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Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
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ORIGIN OF AVARICE
Middle English from Old French from Latin avāritia from avārus greedy from avēre to desire
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).
From Wiktionary
Avarice is a great desire to be rich.
Avarice Sentence Examples
To the cruelty and avarice of Charles he opposed a generous humanity.
The egoism of the upper classes held military duty in contempt, while their avarice depopulated the countryside, whence the legions had drawn their recruits.
They will be the deserved victims of their own avarice.
It was an incredibly rapid evolution, driven by avarice, compulsion, globalization, and changing societal values!
Avarice, luxury and the glaring inequality in the distribution of wealth, threatened to bring about the speedy fall of the state if no cure could be found.
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