Both Uses of
avarice
in
Wuthering Heights
- I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations: avarice is growing with him a besetting sin.†
Chpt 10 *
- I could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling plans were threatened with defeat by death.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(avarice) excessive desire for wealtheditor's notes: Like "greed", but implies greed specifically for money. The early Christian Church counted avarice as one of the "seven deadly sins."