avarice

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AV'ARICE, noun [Latin avaritia, from avarus, from aveo, to covet.] An inordinate desire of gaining and possessing wealth; covetousness; greediness or insatiable desire of gain. Avarice sheds a blasting influence over the finest affections and sweetest comforts of mankind.
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