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English
Etymology
Latin avarus
Adjective
avarous (comparative more avarous, superlative most avarous)
- (uncommon) Avaricious.
- 1862, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams, page 199:
- It is a just matter of lamentation when souls which have been clad with zeal as with scarlet, constantly forward for the glory of God, fall to such apostasy as with Demas to embrace the dunghill of this world, and with an avarous hausture to lick up the mud of corruption.
1996, Wing Span, volumes 5-6, Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union, page 37: will receive what they truly crave: fame. Fame and the undying adoration and admiration of the rest of us mere mortals. Plus of course the fabulous State Prize, which will be of sufficient attraction to excite even the most avarous teams.
2010 September 2, Richard T. Stanley, A Humorous Account of America's Past: 1898 to 1945, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 49:Roosevelt, himself an avarous meat-eater, called for a formal investigation of the meat-packing scandal. To Roosevelt's horror, the government's report soon revealed that conditions in many of America's meat-packing plants were even worse than described in The Jungle.
References
- “avarous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E Smith, editors (1914), “avarous”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.