The Only Use
covet
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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- "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. 237.4coveting = strongly wanting
Definitions:
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(1)
(covet) to strongly want (something--especially something that belongs to another)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)