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Definition of the day : « avidity »

  • noun eagerness
Example sentences :
  • It was upon this last point that I seized with most avidity.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • At 'beautiful Vienne,' Martial boasted that his works were read with avidity.
  • Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
  • They will be read with avidity in the North and in the South, and throughout Europe.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Roderic surveyed his victim with an eye of avidity and triumph.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • Their disunion, the consequence of their avidity, saved it from ruin, but not from pillage.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Complete » by Lewis Goldsmith
  • At five years of age children will generally learn with avidity.
  • Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst
  • He seizes the project with avidity, and offers to supply me with a hammer for my work.
  • Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
  • Still shrinking from his nearness she had ended by listening to him with avidity.
  • Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad
  • A book of thrilling interest; one that can not fail to be read with avidity.
  • Extract from : « The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido » by Henry Keppel
  • They eat it with avidity, and are more concerned about the quantity than about the quality.
  • Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass