gulosity
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gulosity
1490–1500; < Late Latin gulōsitās, equivalent to Latin gulōs ( us ) ( gul ( a ) throat, appetite + -ōsus -ose 1 ) + itās -ity
Example Sentences
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Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity.
From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Charles Grosvenor Osgood
Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months; sees only lie unfold itself from lie; corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
It is then that their true nature is exposed, mired in gulosity and superciliousness as they become.
From Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin
Immanuel Kant was almost the only profound speculative thinker who was decidedly convivial, and given to gulosity, at least at his dinner.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
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