All 7 Uses
avarice
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
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- Your avarice
O'ercasts the world with mourning, under foot
Treading the good, and raising bad men up.†Canto 1.12-22 *avarice = excessive desire for wealth - Such cleansing from the taint of avarice
Do spirits converted need.†Canto 2.12-22 - As avarice quench'd our love
Of good, without which is no working, thus
Here justice holds us prison'd, hand and foot
Chain'd down and bound, while heaven's just Lord shall please.†Canto 2.12-22 - O avarice!†
Canto 2.12-22
- Know then I was too wide of avarice:
And e'en for that excess, thousands of moons
Have wax'd and wan'd upon my sufferings.†Canto 2.12-22 - Therefore if I have been with those, who wail
Their avarice, to cleanse me, through reverse
Of their transgression, such hath been my lot.†Canto 2.12-22 - He, who guards
The isle of fire by old Anchises honour'd
Shall find his avarice there and cowardice;
And better to denote his littleness,
The writing must be letters maim'd, that speak
Much in a narrow space.†Canto 3.12-22
Definitions:
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(1)
(avarice) excessive desire for wealthLike "greed", but implies greed specifically for money. The early Christian Church counted avarice as one of the "seven deadly sins."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)