covetousness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: covetousness	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for covetousness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
covetousness n an envious eagerness to possess something extreme greed for material wealth Synonym(s): avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) Synonym(s): avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Covetousness \Cov"etousness\, n. 1. Strong desire. [R.] When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. --Shak. 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat. Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Covetousness a strong desire after the possession of worldly things (Col. 3:5; Eph. 5:5; Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10; Matt. 6:20). It assumes sometimes the more aggravated form of avarice, which is the mark of cold-hearted worldliness.