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Webster 1913 Edition
Rapacity
1.
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness;
as, the
rapacity
of pirates; the rapacity
of wolves.2.
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
“The rapacity of some ages.” Sprat.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rapacity
RAPAC'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Addictedness to plunder; the exercise of plunder; the act or practice of seizing by force; as the rapacity of a conquering army; the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of a Turkish pashaw; the rapacity of extortioners.2.
Ravenousness; as the rapacity of animals.3.
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice.