It must not, however, be confounded with greed, which is the most immediate meaning of the Latin word avaritia.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Human Nature] Reference

Malus est morbus maleque afficit avaritia siquidem censeo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

'Tis proper to man alone, uni superbia, avaritia, superstitio, saith Plin. lib.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Dietae salutis: avaritia est amor immoderatus pecuniae vel acquirendae, vel retinendae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Nam quocunque modo causa procedat, hoc semper agitur, ut loculi impleantur, etsi avaritia nequit satiari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Incitabant praeterea corrupti civitatis mores, quos pessima ac diversa inter se mala, luxuria atque avaritia, vexabant.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference

Quis ergo iam quamlibet illicitam concupiscentiam potest recte a fornicationis genere separate, si avaritia fornicatio est?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.] Reference

Superbia major quam opulenti rustici, invidia quam luis venerae inimicitia nocentior melancholia, avaritia in immensum profunda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Tra6tatus breviufculus de vana gloria, avaritia, Scc. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum quos Collegio corporis Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensi legavit reverendissimus in Christo pater Matthæus Parker, archiepiscopus cantuariensis] Reference

Platth.s. ijyj uotj dominatur avaritia, qui habent tanquam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini] Reference

Legendum, avaritia» Voifiui: cui tnox adflipulabuncmr alii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ...] Reference

Gild.vs. L63. sicnotat: quodcunque profunda Traxit avaritia, luxu peiorc refundit.    From Wordnik.com.  [P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI.] Reference

&c. avaritia difficilius curatur quam insania: quoniam hac omnes fere medici laborant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

Adeo autem sacerdotes erant illius temporis ab avaritia immunes, ut nec territoria nisi coacti acciperent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12)] Reference

A luxuri& pariter ac avaritia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference

Fervct avaritia, mifcroquc Cupidine pedlus?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Horace] Reference

De avaritia furtiva.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum quos Collegio corporis Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensi legavit reverendissimus in Christo pater Matthæus Parker, archiepiscopus cantuariensis] Reference

3) Pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference

Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.    From Wordnik.com.  [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference