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Definition of Covetously
1. Adverb. With jealousy; in an envious manner. "He looked at his friend's new car jealously"
2. Adverb. In a greedy manner.
Definition of Covetously
1. adv. In a covetous manner.
Definition of Covetously
1. Adverb. In a covetous manner ¹
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Definition of Covetously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covetously
Literary usage of Covetously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Whitgift by John Whitgift, John Ayre (1851)
"To be short, you say now they go "fisking from place to place, and covetously
join living to living, &c. ; and being but one shepherd have many flocks. ..."
2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"Wo unto them that covetously join one house to another, and 4 bring one field so
... Wo unto him that covetously 4 getteth evil-gotten goods into his house, ..."
3. The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People by William Sewel (1844)
"Woe unto them that covetously join one house to another, and bring one field so
... Woe unto him that covetously getteth evil-gotten goods into his house, ..."
4. Mammon: Or Covetousness the Sin of the Christian Church by John Harris, Matthew Henry (1850)
"It does not merely speak to the eye, and say, Thou shall not look covetously.
It does not merely speak to the hand, and say, Thou shall not grasp covetously ..."
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