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
- : 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.
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