avarice
has definitions from the fields of religion,theology
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[ noun ] (religion,theology) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)The victims of the quacks are frequently poor people , like Mr._A. , who scrape_up their life savings to offer as a sacrifice to Doctor_Fraud 's avarice . Related terms |
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[ noun ] extreme greed for material wealth
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