"ravening" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.",
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          "text": "1555, Richard Eden (translator), The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India by Pietro Martire d’Anghiera, London: Edward Sutton, Decade 3, Book 5, p. 116,\nThey eate mans fleshe but seldome, bycause they meete not oftentymes with strangiers, except they goo foorth of theyr owne dominions with a mayne army of purpose to hunt for men, when theyr rauenynge appetite pricketh them forwarde."
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          "ref": "1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 114",
          "text": "After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.",
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          "ref": "1567, “Hippolytus”, in John Studley, transl., edited by Thomas Newton, Seneca his tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh, published 1581, act 2",
          "text": "To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin,\nAnd might went for oppressed right […]",
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        "(archaic) Subject to the voracity of a predator."
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          "ref": "1532, Desiderius Erasmus, “Of maners at table”, in Robert Whittington, transl., A Lytell Booke of Good Maners for Chyldren, London",
          "text": "Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.",
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          "ref": "1552, John Caius, A Boke, or Conseill against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse, London, page 34",
          "text": "Consider whether the lusty person were in foretyme geuen to moche drynkyng, eatyng and rauenyng, tomoch ease, to no exercise or bathinges in his helth, or no.",
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          "ref": "1567, John Maplet, “Of Libardbaine”, in A Greene Forest, London",
          "text": "Diascorides sayth, that this roote being stamped to poulder, and being bespiced or bestrewed vpon their meate, as flesh, and such other things wherwith they liue, destroyeth and killeth the Panther, the Libard, the Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which liue by rauening, and that whilst their meate so ordred is in their mouth.",
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          "ref": "1943, Wilfrid Gibson, “The Floe”, in The Searchlights, Oxford University Press",
          "text": "[…] with his shovel he had fed\nThe roaring and insatiable red\nRavening of the furnace […]",
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          "text": "We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.",
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          "text": "Thus lived this lazy Drone upon the Labours of the Industrious Bees; to his high Content, and their no small Trouble: to whom his Company was as Offensive, as his Ravening was Oppressive: nor could they get any Relief, by their complaining of him to the Keepers.",
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          "text": "After an hour or so the veil lifted and discovered beneath it fifty horsemen, ravening lions to the sight, in steel armour dight. We observed them straightly, and lo! they were cutters-off of the highway, wild as wild Arabs.",
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          "text": "To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin,\nAnd might went for oppressed right […]",
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          "text": "Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.",
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          "ref": "1552, John Caius, A Boke, or Conseill against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse, London, page 34",
          "text": "Consider whether the lusty person were in foretyme geuen to moche drynkyng, eatyng and rauenyng, tomoch ease, to no exercise or bathinges in his helth, or no.",
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          "ref": "1567, John Maplet, “Of Libardbaine”, in A Greene Forest, London",
          "text": "Diascorides sayth, that this roote being stamped to poulder, and being bespiced or bestrewed vpon their meate, as flesh, and such other things wherwith they liue, destroyeth and killeth the Panther, the Libard, the Wolfe, and all other beastes, those especially which liue by rauening, and that whilst their meate so ordred is in their mouth.",
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          "text": "[…] with his shovel he had fed\nThe roaring and insatiable red\nRavening of the furnace […]",
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          "text": "We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.",
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          "text": "Thus lived this lazy Drone upon the Labours of the Industrious Bees; to his high Content, and their no small Trouble: to whom his Company was as Offensive, as his Ravening was Oppressive: nor could they get any Relief, by their complaining of him to the Keepers.",
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