All 14 Uses of
avarice
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
- Your avarice O'ercasts the world with mourning, under foot Treading the good, and raising bad men up.†
Canto 1.12-22 *
- ] Avarice. v. 56.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] Ariosto, having personified Avarice as a strange and hideous monster, says of her— Peggio facea nella Romana corte Che v'avea uccisi Cardinali e Papi.†
Canto 1.N.
- 114. from this passage, coupled with the remark of Vellutello upon it: "The first of these sins is anger which he signifies by the red face; the second, represented by that between pale and yellow is envy and not, as others have said, avarice; and the third, denoted by the black, is a melancholy humour that causes a man's thoughts to be dark and evil, and averse from all joy and tranquillity." v. 44.†
Canto 1.N.
- 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
- The former leaves to the latter to discover for itself the three carnal sins, avarice, gluttony and libidinousness; having already declared the nature of the spiritual sins, pride, envy, anger, and indifference, or lukewarmness in piety, which the Italians call accidia, from the Greek word.†
Canto 2.N
- ] Avarice. v. 16.†
Canto 2.N
- ] By the seven heads, it is supposed with sufficient probability, are meant the seven capital sins, by the three with two horns, pride, anger, and avarice, injurious both to man himself and to his neighbor: by the four with one horn, gluttony, lukewarmness, concupiscence, and envy, hurtful, at least in their primary effects, chiefly to him who is guilty of them. v. 146.†
Canto 2.N
- 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
- Yet that father has himself been accused of avarice in the Purgatory Canto XX. v. 78; though his general character was that of a bounteous prince. v. 125.†
Canto 3.N
Definition:
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(avarice) excessive desire for wealtheditor's notes: Like "greed", but implies greed specifically for money. The early Christian Church counted avarice as one of the "seven deadly sins."