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gulosity

/gyoo-los-i-tee/US // gyuˈlɒs ɪ ti //UK // (ɡjʊˈlɒsɪtɪ) //

贪婪,贪婪的人,贪婪之心,贪婪的心

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : gluttony or greediness.

Examples

  • Love of the drink, or pleasing the appetite, which we call gulosity.

  • This gulosity, which Clemens Alexandrinus calleth the throat devil, and the belly devil is the first cause.

  • Gulosity is the general nature of it: excess is the matter: depravation of reason is its special form.

  • Think how thou consumest the creatures of God, that are given for service, and not for gulosity and luxury.

  • Mostly it doesn't -and the Flying Dutchman resumes his wanderings looking for more venal gulosity and less legal probity.