covetise

From Old French coveitise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌvɪtaɪz/

covetise (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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