covetise

English

Etymology

From Old French coveitise.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkʌvɪtaɪz/

Noun

covetise (uncountable)

(obsolete) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse,
  Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize,
  That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.

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