All 7 Uses

avarice
in
Dante's Inferno
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The Fourth Circle: the Avaricious and the Prodigal.†
Canto T.O. *

avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
Two men are just, but there they are not heeded; Pride, Envy, Avarice are the three sparks that have inflamed their hearts.†
Canto 4-6

avarice = excessive desire for wealth
The Fourth Circle, that of the Avaricious and the Prodigal.†
Canto 7-9

avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
These were clerks who have no hairy covering on their head, and Popes and Cardinals, in whom avarice practices its excess.†
Canto 7-9

avarice = excessive desire for wealth
Old report in the world calls them blind; it is a people avaricious, envious, and proud; from their customs take heed that thou keep thyself clean.†
Canto 13-15

avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
And not the only Bolognese do I weep here, nay, this place is so full of them, that so many tongues are not now taught between Savena and the Reno to say sipa; [2] and if of this thou wishest pledge or testimony, bring to mind our avaricious heart.†
Canto 16-18
And were it not that reverence for the Supreme Keys that thou heldest in the glad life still forbiddeth me, I would use words still more grave; for your avarice saddens the world, trampling down the good and exalting the bad.†
Canto 19-21

avarice = excessive desire for wealth

Definitions:

(1) (avarice)
excessive desire for wealth

Like "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)