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Lying vs Covet - What's the difference?

lying | covet |

As verbs the difference between lying and covet

is that lying is while covet is to wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.

As a noun lying

is an act of telling a lie, or falsehood.

lying

English

(wikipedia lying)

Verb

(head)
  • * 1811 , , Sense and Sensibility The Free Library , Chapter 19:
    • Without shutting herself up from her family ... or lying awake the whole night to indulge meditation, Elinor found every day afforded her leisure enough to think of Edward..

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of telling a lie, or falsehood.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • The act of one who lies, or keeps low to the ground.
  • * Saint Augustine, Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    • But whom could the lyings in wait of the human heart escape?

    covet

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously.
  • To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden).
  • To yearn, have or indulge inordinate desire, notably for another's possession.

    • Derived terms

    * covetable * coveter * covetingly * covetous * covetousness

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