All 15 Uses
avarice
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The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
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- People who support the right side of a question can also have ulterior motives like ambition, avarice, personal animosity, and party opposition.†
p. 18.2 *avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- Legislatures also feel rage, resentment, jealousy, avarice, and other violent emotions.†
p. 32.6
- The desire to make money, the object of human avarice and enterprise, energizes industry.†
p. 51.5
- I've showed the dangers if the knot is severed by ambition or avarice, by jealousy or misrepresentation.†
p. 60.1
- But to depend on a government that must, itself, depend on thirteen other governments to fulfill its contracts would require a credulity rarely seen in the monetary transactions of mankind and unreconcilable with the usual sharp-sightedness of avarice.†
p. 111.6
- The mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of a larger interest, is drowned out by the clamors of impatient avarice for immediate and immoderate gain.†
p. 154.8
- Or are they scattered over the face of the country as avarice or chance has cast their lot or that of their ancestors?†
p. 219.5
- They are constantly bombarded by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of men who have more confidence than they deserve, and of those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it.†
p. 262.4avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- Effect on Avaricious Office Holder†
p. 265.7
- An avaricious man, who knows when he must give up the benefits of his office, would be tempted to make the best use of his limited opportunity.†
p. 265.8
- His avarice might be a guard on his avarice.†
p. 265.9avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- His avarice might be a guard on his avarice.†
p. 265.9
- Perhaps he is vain or ambitious, as well as avaricious.†
p. 265.9avaricious = having or showing excessive desire for wealth
- But if he is forced to leave office, his avarice would probably win over his caution, his vanity, or his ambition.†
p. 266.1avarice = excessive desire for wealth
- An avaricious man might betray the nation to acquire wealth.†
p. 274.9avaricious = having or showing 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)