† covetivenessn.
Phrenology. Obsolete.
= acquisitiveness n.
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covetiveness1815
acquisitiveness1826
1815 J. G. Spurzheim Physiognom. Syst. Pref. 10 I know that covetiveness is a pleonasm, but this fault is observed in many other words... I have added iveness solely for the sake of uniformity.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 596 She has the organ of covetiveness, and steal she must.
1826 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1123 Were these ‘stolen’ looks occasioned by ‘covetiveness’, or ‘self-love’?
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n.1815- to sweep under the rug
- to sweeten the pill
- to swelt one's heart
- to swerve from, shun, refuse one's steps
- to swerve out of kind
- to swim against the stream or the tide
- to swim between two waters
- to swim between two waters occasionally also streams
- to swim fair
- to swim round
- to swim with or down the stream or the tide
- to swing a cast
- to swing a cat
- to swing a left
- to swing a right
- to swing around the circle
- to swing both ways
- to swing douglas
- to swing it
- to swing it on or across
- to swing kelly
- to swing on all top ropes
- to swing seconds
- to swing the gate
- to swing the lead