Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being predacious.
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Examples
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Her own daughter, on the other hand, had not a hint of predacity in her entire appearance or demeanor.
Extreme Measures Vince Flynn 2009
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Beck was indeed watching, and with the mesmeric predacity which had led men to call him "snake-eye."
The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972
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Our plutocrats have become ashamed of their country -- probably because it permits them to practice a brutal predacity -- and now cultivate foreign customs, ape foreign fashions, and purchase as husbands for their daughters the upper-servants of European potentates -- people who earned their titles of nobility by chronic boot-licking or sacrificing their female relatives to the god of infamy.
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A thieving fox will grow fat by predacity while an honest dog starves in the path of duty.
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The continental powers will not harm England so long as the old harlot behaves herself, but there's no denying that they are becoming dead-tired of her predacity and impudence.
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Even Jehovah Boanerges Cranfill, the champion leg elongator of the universe, finds it hard work to keep fat in the Baptist field -- must add professional beggary to his schemes of predacity.
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The old line life insurance fake is the most colossal scheme of predacity known to human history.
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The early combinations of men were first a grouped predacity -- organized hunting; then a grouped belligerency, -- organized warfare.
The Man-Made World; or, Our Androcentric Culture Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897
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The joking hahit extended as far down as Florence, even as Siena, and at Naples I had found cabmen who tempered their predacity with
Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878
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He indeed put an end to the golden age; he gave venom to serpents and predacity to wolves; he shook the honey from the leaf, and stopped the flow of wine in the rivulets; he concealed the element of fire, and made the means of life scanty and precarious.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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