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Definition of Gulosity
1. n. Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.
Definition of Gulosity
1. Noun. Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity; gluttony. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gulosity
1. gluttony [n -TIES] - See also: gluttony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulosity
Literary usage of Gulosity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1887)
"This essay is more against the practices of the parasite than gulosity. It is
entitled The art of living at the cost of others. Johnson wrote to one of Mrs. ..."
2. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"S« gulosity, and ... It. & Sp. Gala: D.taH: L. Gula. The gullet, throat, or «allow.
gulosity,* ». Gluttony. ..."
3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... the Sheriff was the judge of the county, aucl with whom he contracted a warm
and lasting friend- by royal appointment, ship. n gulosity is gluttony, ..."
4. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the by James Boswell, George Birkbeck Norman Hill (1799)
"This essay is more against the practices of the parasite than gulosity. It is
entitled The art of lii'ing at the cost of others. ..."
5. A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience by Richard Baxter (1825)
"Love of the drink, or pleasing the appetite, which we call gulosity. 2. ...
All excess of .drink is sinful gulosity or sensuality, of the same nature with ..."
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