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Meanings of covetousness in English
Allegorical human figure personifying covetousness as one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
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Usage of covetousness in English
1
In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
2
Usurers were the open representatives of flagrant covetousness in all the ages.
3
The undulating tapestry of Tuscany has bewitched people into covetousness for years.
4
Christ warns us against hypocrisy, the fear of the world and covetousness.
5
The followers of covetousness are: Want of charity, dishonest dealing, theft, etc.
6
The Duke of Albany is generally hated for his greed and covetousness.
7
Nor is it only the second table which covetousness dashes to fragments.
8
That envy and covetousness are unpleasing and unprofitable are shown by these:
9
Their sin from this point of view was the sin of covetousness.
10
Alas, the world is deceived, and covetousness brings it under its dominion.
11
And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you.
12
The evil was my poverty, my covetousness, and perhaps also my ambition.
13
Never desire to fill thy treasury by acting unrighteously or from covetousness.
14
His sin, then, was double, being at once covetousness and robbing God.
15
I omit, that to nature very little, to covetousness nothing is sufficient.
16
Never was any man so distressed with such pride, covetousness, and falsehood.
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common