Tenth Commandment

American  

noun

1. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's”: tenth of the Ten Commandments.

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Example Sentences

A. The Tenth Commandment forbids all desires to take or keep wrongfully what belongs to another.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.

The duty of the Tenth Commandment is righteousness, to let every one possess his own; the contrary is to be miserable and unjust.

From Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther by Bell, Captain Henry

I break the Tenth Commandment, Moodie, whenever I hear you play upon that flute.

From Roughing It in the Bush by Moodie, Susanna

The Tenth Commandment which forbids us to covet our neighbor's goods, bears the same relation to the Seventh as the Ninth does to the Sixth.

From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by Stapleton, John H. (John Henry)

Shows further how, in a Great Temple, I broke the Tenth Commandment in Fifty-three Places and bowed down before Kano and a Carpenter.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard