Word Meanings - COVETISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Avarice. Spenser.

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• AVARICE
  to covert, fr. a root av to satiate one's self: cf. Gr. av to satiate 1. An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.