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Definition
to strongly want (something—especially something that belongs to another)
- "What else do I need my memory for?" my mother asked her sister; the two women would smile at each other—my Aunt Martha coveting that part of my mother's memory that might tell her the story of who my father was.p. 237.4
There are no more uses of "covet" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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