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voracity

[ vaw-ras-i-tee, voh-, vuh- ]

noun

  1. the condition or quality of being voracious.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of voracity1

1520–30; < Latin vorācitās, equivalent to vorāc- (stem of vorāx ) gluttonous + -itās -ity
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Example Sentences

Parisian women—and Caroline is one—are very vain, and as for their voracity—don't speak of it.

Fenceviewer I. has suffered the first check in her career of rapacity, voracity and capacity.

And esteem it to be a Championlike action if one can but make the t'other dead drunk by his voracity of sucking in most.

"Perhaps the politeness may equal the voracity," said the fat lady, who was almost boiling over with wrath.

It principally subsists on fish, but such is its voracity, that it seizes almost every thing that comes within its reach.

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