rapacity

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English

Etymology

From rapac(ious) +‎ -ity, from Middle French rapacité, from Latin rapacitas.

Pronunciation

Noun

rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)

  1. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:greed
    • 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Hare Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. , new edition, volume IV, London: F Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, , →OCLC, page 3:
      Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.
    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 212:
      A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.

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