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Definition
to strongly want (something—especially something that belongs to another)
- Unknown men were elevated into importance when they received certain coveted bids; others who were considered "all set" found that they had made unexpected enemies, felt themselves stranded and deserted, talked wildly of leaving college.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (66% in)
- Burne, fair-haired, silent, and intent, appeared in the house only as a busy apparition, gliding in quietly at night and off again in the early morning to get up his work in the library—he was out for the Princetonian, competing furiously against forty others for the coveted first place.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (12% in)
There are no more uses of "covet" in This Side of Paradise.
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