English

Noun

covetise ‎(uncountable)

1. Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse, / Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize, / That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.