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voracity

Noun

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The quality of being voracious; voraciousness.

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It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile. Pliny the Elder

Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence. Marianne Moore

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. George Bernard Shaw

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