Crossword clues for coveting
coveting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Covet \Cov"et\ (k?v"?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Covered; p. pr. & vb. n. Coveting.] [OF. coveitier, covoitier, F. convoiter, from a derivative fr. L. cupere to desire; cf. Skr. kup to become excited. Cf. Cupidity.]
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To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sense.
Covet earnestly the best gifts.
--1. Cor. xxii. 31.If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
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To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
--Ex. xx. 17.Syn: To long for; desire; hanker after; crave.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who covets. vb. (present participle of covet English)
Usage examples of "coveting".
Jealousy-or envy, if you prefer to use that term to describe the coveting of characteristics rather than love-will dog your footsteps as the Furies did poor Orestes.
Between his wrath at the suspicion of an injury, and the prudence enjoined by his abject coveting of her, he consented to be fooled for the sake of vengeance, and something besides.
She will be cured by-and-by of that coveting of everything that I do, feel, think, dream, imagine .
He dragged her through the labyrinths of his penetralia, in his hungry coveting to be loved more and still more, more still, until imagination gave up the ghost, and he talked to her plain hearing like a monster.
But as he gripped the sack with the plow inside, he could almost feel the covetings of other men directed toward that plow, that warm and trembling gold.