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Definition
to strongly want (something—especially something that belongs to another)
- But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!1 — Marley's Ghost (6% in)
There are no more uses of "covet" in A Christmas Carol.
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