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adjective showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages
adjective immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
originFrom Middle English coveitous, from Anglo-Norman *cuveitus, from Medieval Latin as if *cupiditosus, from Latin cupiditas (“desire”); see covet.
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