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Definition of Rapacity
1. Noun. Extreme gluttony.
Generic synonyms: Gluttony
Derivative terms: Edacious, Esurient, Rapacious, Rapacious, Voracious, Voracious
2. Noun. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins).
Generic synonyms: Deadly Sin, Mortal Sin
Derivative terms: Avaricious, Covetous, Greedy, Rapacious
Definition of Rapacity
1. n. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
Definition of Rapacity
1. Noun. The quality of being rapacious; voracity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rapacity
1. the quality of being ravenous [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rapacity
Literary usage of Rapacity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1850)
"rapacity of Some courtiers nevertheless contrived to obtain a Md ofher ...
household distinguished themselves preeminently by rapacity and hardheartedness. ..."
2. The History of Spain: From the Establishment of the Colony of Gades by the by Charles John Ann Hereford (1793)
"... —rapacity of Charles's Favourites—Complaints of Ximenes—Peace ... tents of
the Spaniards—rapacity of the Flemings— Death of Maximilian—Charles ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"The arrogance and rapacity of Botta, the Austrian general, to whom the command
of the ... who surpassed him in rapacity, were thought too mild and moderate. ..."
4. The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies and Conquests: From the Earliest by John Gillies (1809)
"rapacity and Cruelty of the Spartan Government* —The Thirty Tyrants in
Athens.—Perfection of Lyftas and his Family. ..."
5. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"The praetor Lucretius carried his rapacity still further, and did not even spare
the staunchest allies of Rome, against whom he had no complaint whatever to ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"... the left ; and thence to the cape or promon- swift decision, resistance to
rebellion and tory of Cape Breton aforesaid, lying near the ' rapacity, ..."
7. The Good Man and the Good: An Introduction to Ethics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1918)
"It is threatened from the other quarter, not only by greed but by aggressive
rapacity, the tendency to attack the institutions and possessions of other men. ..."
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