Word Meanings - RAVENING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.

PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages.
RAPACITY
1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. 2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. "The rapacity
EXTORTIONER
, One who practices extortion.
EXTORTIONARY
Extortionate.
EXTORTION
The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due. Abbott. 3. That which is extorted or exacted by force. Syn. -- Oppression;
EAGERNESS
1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness.
EXTORTIONATE
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
PLUNDERAGE
The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.
PLUNDER
Etym: 1. To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South. 2. To take by pillage; to appropriate forcibly; as, the enemy
MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.