All 8 Uses

avarice
in
John Adams, by McCullough
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A single assembly could "grow avaricious ....exempt itself from burdens ....become ambitious and after some time vote itselfperpetual."†
Subsection 1.2.2 *

avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
Abigail and friends spoke bitterly of a selfish, avaricious spirit that had taken hold to a degree unthinkable earlier.†
Subsection 2.4.4
They have less ambition, I mean that of conquest and military glory, than their neighbors, but I don't perceive that they have more avarice.†
Subsection 2.5.2

avarice = excessive desire for wealth
Frugality and industry were virtues everywhere, but avarice and stinginess were not frugality.†
Subsection 2.5.2
Was he a selfish, avaricious, designing, deceitful villain, I should think he had encroached upon the old gentleman's prerogatives.†
Subsection 2.5.2

avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
But more disturbing to him than almost anything was the view heard in many circles that the old ideal of devotion to the public good had been supplanted by rampant avarice; the love of country, by a love of luxury.†
Subsection 3.8.1

avarice = excessive desire for wealth
He ruminated on avarice, poverty, fame, and honor.†
Subsection 3.8.3
Or is ambition and avarice, adulation, baseness, covetousness, the thirst for riches, indifference concerning the means of rising and enriching, the contempt of principle, the spirit of party and of faction the motive and principle that governs?†
Subsection 3.11.3

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)