'Covetousness' definitions:
Definition of 'covetousness'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Covetousness'
From: GCIDE
- Covetousness \Cov"et*ous*ness\, n.
- 1. Strong desire. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. [1913 Webster]
- Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. --Sprat.
- Syn: Avarice; cupidity; eagerness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Covetousness'
From: Easton
- Covetousness a strong desire after the possession of worldly things (Col. 3:5; Eph. 5:5; Heb. 13:5; 1 Tim. 6:9, 10; Matt. 6:20). It assumes sometimes the more aggravated form of avarice, which is the mark of cold-hearted worldliness.