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- noun Alternative spelling of
covetousness .
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Examples
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It is cultish to do such and it plays into other's greed, coveteousness, revenge,egotism ETC...our own hearts are the ones that must be right before God.
Tell God No James F. McGrath 2008
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Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View Calvin Elliott
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The ministers told him that they had not seen any indication of coveteousness in Brother and Sister Susag, and then asked him what proof he had for thinking so.
Personal Experiences of S O Susag Susag, S O 1948
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The brethren said that they had not seen any indication of coveteousness in us and all the brother had against us was that we hadn't been giving enough, and, said they, “After thinking it over, neither did we know what you were giving.”
Personal Experiences of S O Susag Susag, S O 1948
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The ministers told him that they had not seen any indication of coveteousness in Brother and Sister Susag, and then asked him what proof he had for thinking so.
Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag S. O. Susag 1907
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The brethren said that they had not seen any indication of coveteousness in us and all the brother had against us was that we hadn't been giving enough, and, said they, "After thinking it over, neither did we know what you were giving."
Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag S. O. Susag 1907
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Administration Building, I took that opportunity to read these two youthful fellow beings a sermon on envy, jealousy, and coveteousness.
Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899
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And, indeed, do we not see that men are given over to coveteousness, gluttony, drunkenness and profligacy to an enormous degree?
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The printed page may teach envy, desire, coveteousness, hatred, but the Book of Nature teaches resignation, hope, willingness to labour and live, submission to die.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Liddell and Scott in the interpretation of [Greek: pleonexia] itself as only the desire of getting more than our share, may perhaps be bettered by the authority of the teacher, who, declining the appeal made to him as an equitable [Greek: meristês] (Luke xii. 14-46), tells his disciples to beware of coveteousness, simply as the desire of getting more than we have got.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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