How To Use Covetousness In A Sentence
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It is true: but liberality baulkes, and feares covetousnesse and niggardize, more a great deale then prodigallity; so does zeale lukewarmnes and coldnesse, more then too much heate and forwardnesse; the defect is more opposite and dangerous to some vertues, then the excesse.
A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich
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Second thing to be considered in it, to wit, the thing we are dehorted from, which is covetousness.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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It is this covetousness that fuels corruption in public life and communalises politics.
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To explain every little mark of usury and covetousness, such as the mortgages, bonds, indentures, &c. the piece of candle stuck on a save-all, on the mantle-piece; the rotten furniture of the room, and the miserable contents of the dusty wardrobe, would be unnecessary: we shall only notice the more striking articles.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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I say, it is but a specimen or taste of those numerous, or rather innumerable instances which might be produced; two of which especially I had thought to have spoken something more fully to; namely, the calling covetousness, good husbandry; and prodigality, generosity.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things 'sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.
Colossians 3.
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And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Some lavish gold out of the bag to make an idol of it in the house, while others hoard up gold in the bag to make an idol of it in the heart; for covetousness is idolatry, as dangerous, though not as scandalous, as the other.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Caroline could have been more fatal to her favour with her uncle. — “Covetousness,” would he say, “if it want the activity of vice, is the smotherer of every virtue.
Things By Their Right Names
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Covetousness is the mother of ruin and mischief.
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Covetise > Avarice (covetise = covetousness) 5 Through wasteful pride and wanton riotise, wasteful > causing ruin wanton riotise > wild extravagance, dissipation
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
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The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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With the sins of uncleanness the apostle here, as in the preceding chapter, v. 19, connects pleonexia, covetousness.
A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
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Shall we cease to teach our children that of all covetousness, that which would spoil the helpless is the most revolting?
Rural Hours
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The sections explore grace in relation to problems like anxiety, impatience, covetousness, despondency and lust.
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The common belief that the eating of the grain by insects is a consequence of the covetousness of the yamen underlings is shown to be futile.
Lunheng
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Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
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[3945] Matt.xix. 17, 18, etc. [3946] Harvey here remarks: "In a theological point of view, it should be observed, that no saving merit is ascribed to almsgiving: it is spoken of here as the negation of the vice of covetousness, which is wholly inconsistent with the state of salvation to which we are called.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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While lagging behind on covetousness and lust, we beat all comers in the sheer weight of our self-admiration.
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Poverty wants many things, and covetousness [avarice] all.
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So too with the 10th Commandment's ban on covetousness: No American law forbids wrongful thoughts, but only avaricious actions.
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She _smelt_, so to say, that there was something underneath the offer which was not to her advantage; but then the thought of thirty crowns a month, of all those coins chinking in her apron, falling to her, as it were, from the skies, without her doing anything for it, filled her with covetousness.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
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I suspect that this was the case, because Christ takes occasion from it to warn against covetousness, pleonexia -- a desire of having more, more than God in his providence has allotted us.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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After the spirit of Covetousness has secured the bounties and luxuries of this life, the "sottish" Ahaz (Possessor) turns to the worship of Rimmon (Pomegranate), a god of agriculture and the fit representative of Gluttony.
Milton's Angels
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The two are so closely allied that the Greek for "covetousness" (pleonexia) is used sometimes in Scripture, and often in the Greek Fathers, for sins of impurity.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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It can be more subtle or it can be strong, such as covetousness, the desire for someone else's property.
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See what cruelty covetousness is the cause of, and what horrid practices those are often put upon that are greedy to enlarge their own border.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The thing we are dehorted from, covetousness, 293. by which is not meant a prudent forecast and parsimony, 294. but an anxious care about worldly things, attended with a distrust of Providence, 295. a rapacity in getting, 298. by all illegal ways, 301. a tenaciousness in keeping,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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To this flesh belong adultery, covetousness, lust and murder.
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Noting my covetousness, a native woman lifted her cross off her neck and placed it around mine.
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Covetousness is not only in getting riches unjustly, but in loving them inordinately, which is a key that opens the door to all sin.
The Lord's Prayer
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And thus much for the second thing considerable in the dehortation; namely, the thing we are therein dehorted from, which is that mean, sordid, and degrading vice of covetousness: the nature of which I have been endeavouring to make out, both negatively, by shewing what it is not; and positively, by shewing what it is, and wherein it consists.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
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To speak plainly, does the root of all this lie in covetousness, which is idolatry, and do we seek not profit, but a gift.
The singing of Psalms and the Divine Office
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Here, as in Eph 5: 3, 5, "covetousness" is joined with "fornication": the common fount of both being "the fierce and ever fiercer longing of the creature, which has turned from God, to fill itself with the inferior objects of sense" [Trench, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In this case, that means that lying, disobedience to your parents, and covetousness could all qualify me or you for that appellation.
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The first four books of the "Institutes" treat of the rules governing the monastic life, illustrated by examples from the author's personal observation in Egypt and Palestine; the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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And it was not so much love - an emotion, I concede, that unless you're seriously perverted, only truly exists between sentient beings - as a kind of lusty covetousness; but, you can take it from me, it was a very strong feeling, and one that has only increased over the years I've either had a Brompton between my thighs, or hefted one in my arms.
Quickrelease.tv
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From under his wings sprouted lacy filamentous golden plumes that once sent Victorian society into paroxysms of covetousness and slaughter.
Country diary: Papua New Guinea
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The heart must be kept pure from fleshly lusts, all unchaste thoughts and desires; and from worldly lusts; covetousness is called filthy lucre; from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, all that which come out of the heart, and defiles the man.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The seven deadly sins are covetousness, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, anger and sloth.
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Covetousness cracks the sinews of faith, numbs the apprehension of anything above sense; and only affected with the certainty of things present, makes a peradventure of things to come; lives but unto one world, nor hopes but fears another: makes their own death sweet unto others, bitter unto themselves, brings formal sadness, scenical mourning, and no wet eyes at the grave.
Letter to a Friend
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Everything you ever wanted could be yours so what was the point in covetousness?
365 tomorrows » 2008 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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It may be difficult to define greed, but it's easy to define covetousness.
