edacity

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English

Etymology

From Latin edacitas.

Noun

edacity (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Greediness; voracity; rapacity.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      It is true, that the wolf is a beast of great edacity and digestion []
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
      [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!

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