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Quotation dates: 1531
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Voracité, n. [e.m.E. voracite (1526), F. voracité, L. vorācitas.] Greed, gluttony. — 1531 Bell. Boece I xxiv.
The … Albianis … ar gevin to … voracite and desire of uncouth metis … that thay can nocht refrene … fra immoderat excesse 1531 Bell. Boece II 257.
[They began] to have experience quha micht ingorge thair wambe with maist voracite
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