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Acquisitiveness

noun
1.
Strong desire to acquire and possess.





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"Acquisitiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... wooden plates and champagne corks, and toy candy-boxes in the shapes of guitars and fire-crackers. Miss Georgie Lancaster, at twenty-eight, was still very girlish and gay, and she shared with her mother and sisters the curious instinctive acquisitiveness of the woman who, powerless financially and incapable of replacing, can ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris
... of the deceased bug, having raised her damp dark face, ceased crying instantly. Over the astounding windfall the chubby fingers closed with a gesture suggesting generations of acquisitiveness. ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... free," said Christ, and the more we turn our aspirations from material acquisitiveness and seek to lay up treasure above, the more we aim to rise, the oftener we "get in the spirit," the more readily we "shall know truth" and reach liberation from the fetter of flesh which binds us to a limited environment, and attain to a ...
— The Rosicrucian Mysteries • Max Heindel


Words linked to "Acquisitiveness" :   acquisitive, unacquisitive, retentiveness, greed, retentivity, bibliomania


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