rapacity
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/ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti/
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ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti
Rzeczownik
The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
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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.
A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
Rzeczownik
extreme gluttony
- Terminy szersze
reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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(of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey.
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The rapacity of carnivorous animals has been considered by some writers to have had a considerable effect on the distribution and even on the extinction of others.
Formy wyrazu
rapacities