gulosity

American  

[gyoo-los-i-tee] / gyuˈlɒs ɪ ti /

noun

1. gluttony or greediness.

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gulosity British  

/ ɡjʊˈlɒsɪtɪ /

noun

1. archaic  greed or gluttony

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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

The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another!

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Immanuel Kant was almost the only profound speculative thinker who was decidedly convivial, and given to gulosity, at least at his dinner.

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He writes of him thus:—"A certain parasite called Golias, who in our time obtained wide notoriety for his gluttony and lechery, and by addiction to gulosity and debauchery deserved his surname, being of excellent culture but of bad manners, and of no moral discipline, uttered oftentimes and in many forms, both of rhythm and metre, infamous libels against the Pope and Curia of Rome, with no less impudence than imprudence."

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If we reflect a moment, we shall find that even in the present day, on our own stage, the infallible and inexhaustible source of the ludicrous is the same ungovernable impulses of sensuality in collision with higher duties; or cowardice, childish vanity, loquacity, gulosity, laziness, &c.

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This subject is too extensive even to be outlined here: the reader is referred to the translation of Hans Stade: old travellers attribute the cannibalism of the Brazilian races to "gulosity" rather than superstition; moreover, these barbarians had certain abominable practices, supposed to be known only to the most advanced races.

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