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Covetousness vs Overambition - What's the difference?

covetousness | overambition |

As nouns the difference between covetousness and overambition

is that covetousness is immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth while overambition is the quality of being overambitious.

covetousness

English

Noun

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  • Immoderate desire for the possession of something, especially for wealth.
  • * 1588: La Placette, Jean Of the Incurable Scepticism of the Church of Rome
    • He which will yield to Fear. mu?t nece??arily yield to Covetou?ne?s or any inordinate De?ire.
  • * 1661: Johnson, J. The morning-exercise at Cripple-gate
    • Covetou?ne?s is the yelow Jaundice of the foul, which ari?es from the over-flowing of the heart with love to yellow gold, by which a Chri?tian is dull'd and deadned.
  • * 1815: Lavington, Samuel Sermons and other discourses, Volume 1
    • Covetousness prevents all good, and is and inlet and encouragement to evil.
  • * 1976: Ellul, Jacques The Ethics of Freedom page 134
    • In obvious compensation and opposition the fear of nothingness becomes the source of covetousness ...

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    overambition

    English

    Noun

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  • The quality of being overambitious.