All 18 Uses
avarice
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
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- Fifth Ledge: the Avaricious.†
Canto T.O. *avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- Fifth Ledge: the Avaricious.†
Canto T.O.
- [3] The seven P's stand for the seven so-called mortal sins,—Peccati, not specific acts, but the evil dispositions of the soul from which all evil deeds spring,—pride, envy, anger, sloth (accidia), avarice, gluttony, and lust†
Canto 1-11avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- [2] Resulting in the sins of avarice, gluttony, and lust†
Canto 12-22
- Up to that time a wretched soul and parted from God had I been, avaricious of everything; now, as thou seest, I am punished for it here.†
Canto 12-22avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- That which avarice doth is displayed here in the purgation of these converted souls, and the Mountain has no more bitter penalty.†
Canto 12-22avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- As avarice, in which labor is lost, quenched our love for every good, so justice here holds us close, bound and captive in feet and hands; and, so long as it shall be the pleasure of the just Lord, so long shall we stay immovable and outstretched.†
Canto 12-22
- Fifth Ledge: the Avaricious.†
Canto 12-22avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- [1] The old she-wolf is avarice, the same who at the outset (Hell, Canto I.) had driven Dante back and made him lose hope of the height†
Canto 12-22avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- O Avarice, what more canst thou do with us, since thou hast so drawn my race unto thyself that it cares not for its own flesh?†
Canto 12-22
- Then we rehearse Pygmalion,[1] whom his gluttonous longing for gold made a traitor and thief and parricide; and the wretchedness of the avaricious Midas which followed on his greedy demand, at which men must always laugh.†
Canto 12-22avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- Fifth Ledge: the Avaricious.†
Canto 12-22
- But tell me (and as a friend pardon me, if too great confidence let loose my rein, and as a friend now talk with me) boxy avarice could find a place within thy breast, amid wisdom so great as that wherewith through thy diligence thou wast filled?†
Canto 12-22avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- Thy question assures me of thy belief, perhaps because of that circle where I was, that I was avaricious in the other life; know then that avarice was too far removed from me, and this want of measure thousands of courses of the moon have punished.†
Canto 12-22avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- Thy question assures me of thy belief, perhaps because of that circle where I was, that I was avaricious in the other life; know then that avarice was too far removed from me, and this want of measure thousands of courses of the moon have punished.†
Canto 12-22avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- Wherefore if to purify myself I have been among the people who lament their avarice, because of its contrary this has befallen me.†
Canto 12-22
- [2] I should be in Hell among the prodigals rolling heavy weights and striking them against those rolled by the avaricious†
Canto 12-22avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- [4] As, for instance, avarice and prodigality†
Canto 12-22avarice = excessive desire for wealth
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)