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Definition
to strongly want (something—especially something that belongs to another)
- No point in telling them not to lie, steal, commit adultery, or covet.p. 366.9
- It will be a shore fish, a species too paltry and tasteless to have been coveted and sold and exterminated, or else a bottom-feeder pimply with toxins, but Snowman couldn't care less, he'll eat anything.p. 100.8
There are no more uses of "covet" in Oryx and Crake.
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