"thievery" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "One thief may well have the power to achieve a certain amount of success in fulfilling his desires to possess the property of another. But thievery being what it is, it feeds that desire in an intemperate way, and so the desire grows and grows.",
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          "text": "Injurious Time now, with a robber's haste, / Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how;",
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