"Rapacity" is a word in ENGLISH
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness;
ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by
oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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The hands, claws, or talons, in the act of grasping firmly; -- often figuratively, for power, rapacity, or cruelty; as, …
Read the complete definitionGreediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
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Read the complete definitionTo prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Read the complete definitionRapine; rapacity.
Read the complete definitionEagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.
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