"avarice" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \ˈæv.əɹ.ɪs\, \ˈæv.əɹ.ɪs\, ˈæv.ɚ.ɪs Audio: En-us-avarice.ogg , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Simplificationalizer-avarice.wav
  1. Avarice. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: fr-avarice-en-noun-L86m9Eya Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire, Noms indénombrables en anglais
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: avaricious
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          "ref": "Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv 3, 1606",
          "text": "With this there grows, In my most ill-compos’d affection, such A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, I should cut off the nobles for their lands."
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          "ref": "Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776",
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