Definition of Covetousness

Covetousness

Strong desire.

A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense.

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Covetousness Quotations

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel de Montaigne

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
John Milton

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
John Milton

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe

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Covetousness Translations

covetousness in German is Begehrlichkeit
covetousness in Latin is concupiscentia

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