Both Uses of
cupidity
in
Man And Superman
- Obsequiousness, servility, cupidity roused by the prevailing smell of money.†
Chpt Ded. *
- Both are alike forced to borrow motives for the more strenuous actions of their personages from the common stockpot of melodramatic plots; so that Hamlet has to be stimulated by the prejudices of a policeman and Macbeth by the cupidities of a bushranger.†
Chpt Ded.
Definition:
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(cupidity) extreme greed for material wealth