Avarice Definition

ăvə-rĭs
noun
Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity.
American Heritage
Too great a desire to have wealth; cupidity.
Webster's New World

Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

Wiktionary

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 Sentence Examples

  • To the cruelty and avarice of Charles he opposed a generous humanity.

  • They will be the deserved victims of their own avarice.

  • The egoism of the upper classes held military duty in contempt, while their avarice depopulated the countryside, whence the legions had drawn their recruits.

  • 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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