Cupidity

(n.) A passionate desire; love.

(n.) Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness

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• How disentangle the passion for equality from the passion of cupidity, when begins the fight for equality of possessions? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If I had penned some _Quarterly_ cupidity, He would have gladly borne with its stupidity. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Seething mobs of men marched about, their faces lighted up as for holy war, with a smoke of cupidity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• These people hated me with the hatred of cupidity and disappointment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

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