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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ruh-pey-shuhs
Phonetic Transcription : rəˈpeɪ ʃəs



Definition of rapacity

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Middle French rapacité (16c.), from Latin rapacitatem (nominative rapacitas) "greediness," from rapax (genitive rapacis) "grasping, plundering," from rapere "seize" (see rapid).
  • noun plunder
  • noun greed
Example sentences :
  • His eyes shone with rapacity and hope; he became confidential.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • Her folly and rapacity will sooner or later have their effect.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) » by Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
  • "I don't know that rapacity is confined to trade," admitted Annie.
  • Extract from : « A Houseful of Girls » by Sarah Tytler
  • And the Spaniard here, who has been driven out for his cruelty and rapacity.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Detroit » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • With the rapacity Kidd had the cruelty of his odious calling.
  • Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • It tinged victory with a hideous color of rapacity and brutality.
  • Extract from : « The Tyranny of Weakness » by Charles Neville Buck
  • Rapacity was Mazarin's spring of action; Granvella's lust of power.
  • Extract from : « The Revolt of The Netherlands, Complete » by Friedrich Schiller
  • Even his own rapacity had not thought to hold up Burroughs for such a sum.
  • Extract from : « A Man of Two Countries » by Alice Harriman
  • Up in the West there is not so much to be dreaded from the rapacity of men.
  • Extract from : « Rhoda Fleming, Complete » by George Meredith
  • Their rapacity and greed have led them to sacrifice principle to party.
  • Extract from : « Colleges in America » by John Marshall Barker

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