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Greed

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Greed

See Covetousness
Covetousness


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greed

GREED, noun Greediness.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greedily

GREE'DILY, adverb [See Greedy.] With a keen appetite for food or drink; voraciously; ravenously; as, to eat or swallow greedily

1. With keen or ardent desire; eagerly. Jude 1:11.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greediness

GREE'DINESS, noun Keenness of appetite for food or drink; ravenousness; voracity.

Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness

1. Ardent desire.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greedy

GREE'DY, adjective [Latin gradior, and probably signifies reaching forward.]

1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; followed by of; as a lion that is greedy of his prey. Psalms 17:12.

2. Having a keen desire of any thing; eager to obtain; as greedy of gain.