0 an extremely strong wish to get or keep money or possessions:
1 an extremely strong desire to obtain or keep wealth
Through insinuations of avarice, especially incriminating when a tribesman's generosity is a mark of honor, a subtle, ironic inversion of valuation is intimated.
Inquisitors may well have seen heretics as particularly prone to the sins of avarice and usury.
What is the end of avarice and ambition, of the pursuit of wealth, of power, and preeminence?
Thus, the colonial project appeared, at first glance, to be motivated by humanitarian goals as opposed to the commercial avarice of a select few.
The vice of fauvelling and the muck of avarice are now occupying the throne and the highest position in the court.
The authors warned against the ' tautological trap ' of theorizing corruption, avarice and ethnicity - yet these are the same categories they go on to use themselves.
There are links here with penances for avarice or usury.
The opening of the manuscript is proper to a musical monk, as are the diatribes against avarice and several other godly poems and tracts.
