| 单词 |
rapacity |
| 释义 |
rapacity|rəˈpæsɪtɪ| [ad. L. rapācitāt-em, f. rapax rapacious. Cf. F. rapacité (16th c. Littré).] The quality or fact of being rapacious; the exercise of rapacious tendencies.
1543Becon Policy of War Wks. 1564 I. 136 The rapacite of wolues, the violence of Lyons. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 73 Our rapacity,..our snatching, and catching, at far more then is our own. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 75 The great masses..which excite envy, and tempt rapacity. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. viii. 187 An act of wanton rapacity was presently punished. |

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