covetise en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈkʌvɪtaɪz/
Etymology
From Old French coveitise.
Meanings
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(obsolete, uncountable) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse, Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize, That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: