Rapacity
//ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being rapacious; voracity. countable, uncountable
"Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion."
- 2 reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) wordnet
- 3 extreme gluttony wordnet
- 4 (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. wordnet
Example
More examples"Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion."
Etymology
From rapac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.
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