01 n. Strong desire.
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Strong desire.[R.]“When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness.” — Shak.
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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.