covetise
English
Etymology
From Old French coveitise.
Noun
covetise (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse, / Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize, / That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
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