Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who covets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who covets.
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- noun One who
covets .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Until I worked on myself—which in many ways was simply about knowing myself—I was a blamer, a criticizer, a coveter.
Instructions for Your Discontent Barrie Dolnick 2003
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Until I worked on myself—which in many ways was simply about knowing myself—I was a blamer, a criticizer, a coveter.
Instructions for Your Discontent Barrie Dolnick 2003
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But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 67: 1 Peter The Challoner Revision
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But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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To envy their richer neighbours, to covet anything they possessed, was a sin that would only ensure for the coveter an eternal and aggravated continuance of his present thirst.
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However, it was not pity for his mother's sufferings, nor shame for his father's infamy that agitated him, but ever the same terrible fear of incurring the enmity of this dangerous coveter of the Chalusse millions.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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He was an immoderate coveter of great wealth; impatient of labour, he affected an extreme severity, and was too much inclined to cruelty; his behaviour was rude and rough; and he was little imbued with skill either in war or in the liberal arts.
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851
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He had now become a young man of extreme fashion, and as much _repandu_ in society as the utmost and most exigent coveter of London celebrity could desire.
Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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IF I could not venture to place upon paper the exact words of an eloquent coveter of fame, the earth-born, still less can I dare to place upon paper all that passed through the voiceless heart of a coveter of love, the heaven-born.
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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