rapacity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RAPAC'ITY, noun [Latin rapacitas, from rapax, rapio.] 1. Addictedness to plunder; the exercise of plunder; the act or practice of seizing by force; as the rapacity of a conquering army; the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of a Turkish pashaw; the rapacity of extortioners. 2. Ravenousness; as the rapacity of animals. 3. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice.
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