All 13 Uses of
avarice
in
Dante's Inferno -- 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 = excessive desire for wealth
- ] 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.†
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- Such cleansing from the taint of avarice†
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- As avarice quench'd our love†
Canto 1.N
- O avarice!†
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- Know then I was too wide of avarice:†
Canto 1.N
- Their avarice, to cleanse me, through reverse†
Canto 1.N
- carnal sins, avarice, gluttony and libidinousness; having already†
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- Avarice.†
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- three with two horns, pride, anger, and avarice, injurious both†
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- Shall find his avarice there and cowardice;†
Canto 1.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."