LekhoriLekhoriExcessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.
Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).
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