What part of speech is avarice?

Avarice can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. avarice is a noun, singular of avarices.

Inflections

Noun

What does avarice mean?

Definitions

Noun

avarice - reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
avarice - extreme greed for material wealth

Examples of avarice

#   Sentence  
1. noun Young men are apt to fall a victim to their own avarice.
2. noun My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
3. noun If you want to find peace, you must suppress arrogance, avarice and ambition of power.
4. noun And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.
Sentence  
noun
Young men are apt to fall a victim to their own avarice.
My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.
If you want to find peace, you must suppress arrogance, avarice and ambition of power.
And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.

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