Both Uses of
cupidity
in
Moby Dick
- "Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.†
Chpt 7-9
- So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.†
Chpt 91-93 *
Definition:
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(cupidity) extreme greed for material wealth