NOUN
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
How To Use avaritia In A Sentence
- Quem infirmum libido solicitat, aut avaritia, aut honores? nemini invidet, neminem miratur, neminem despicit, sermone maligno non alitur. Anatomy of Melancholy
- 'Tis proper to man alone, uni superbia, avaritia, superstitio, saith Plin. lib. Anatomy of Melancholy
- It must not, however, be confounded with greed, which is the most immediate meaning of the Latin word avaritia. On Human Nature
- Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia. Anatomy of Melancholy
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- Superbia major quam opulenti rustici, invidia quam luis venerae inimicitia nocentior melancholia, avaritia in immensum profunda. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Nam quocunque modo causa procedat, hoc semper agitur, ut loculi impleantur, etsi avaritia nequit satiari. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Jugurthae traderent; alii perfugas vendere, pars ex pacatis praedas agebant; tanta vis avaritiae in animos eorum veluti tabes invaserat. C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino
- Ad utile sanitas refertur; utilium est ambitio, cupido desiderium potius quam amor excessus avaritia. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Non satis aestimare, an melior parens natura homini, an tristior noverca fuerit: Nulli fragilior vita, pavor, confusio, rabies major, uni animantium ambitio data, luctus, avaritia, uni superstitio. Anatomy of Melancholy
