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  • Of course no one in Olinka owns a bicycle, but one of the roadbuilders has one, and all the Olinka men covet it and talk of someday soon purchasing their own.  (source)
    covet = strongly desire
  • the recipient of a fabulously coveted research grant.  (source)
    coveted = strongly desired
  • And I have coveted other people's goods.  (source)
    coveted = strongly wanted
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  • There used to be great friendship between them and the people of Thror; and they often brought us secret news, and were rewarded with such bright things as they coveted to hide in their dwellings.  (source)
    coveted = strongly wanted
  • I covet no man's soul,  (source)
    covet = want
  • He had seen them on the kingsroad, troupes of mothers and children and anxious fathers who had gazed on his horses and wagons with covetous eyes.†  (source)
  • It was tightly closed, but I opened it, to find to my puzzlement and covetousness two polished buffalo nickels, embedded in white cotton.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • as if coveting something that didn't belong to him.  (source)
    coveting = strongly wanting
  • Why do you think she hangs around, covets a relationship with my new wife?†  (source)
    covets = strongly wants
  • 21:26 He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She coveteth" in older English, today we say "She covets."
  • He would peek into the bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag.†  (source)
  • Therefore with thy prayer Sometime assist me: and by that I crave, Which most thou covetest, that if thy feet E'er tread on Tuscan soil, thou save my fame Amongst my kindred.†  (source)
    covetest = strongly want
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou covetest" in older English, today we say "You covet."
  • The lone man and his sun-toughened wife who cling to the shade in an unfruitful and uncoveted place might, with their brothers in arms—the coyote, the jackrabbit, the horned toad, the rattlesnake, together with a host of armored insects—these trained and tested fragments of life might well be the last hope of life against non-life.†  (source)
    uncoveted = not wanted
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncoveted means not and reverses the meaning of coveted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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