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avaritia

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n.1.A reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); avarice; greed.
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Noun1.avaritia - reprehensible acquisitivenessavaritia - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
avarice, greed, rapacity, covetousness
deadly sin, mortal sin - an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace; "theologians list seven mortal sins"
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