Citations:covetess

error for covetousness

 * 1822, John Skelton, poem in The retrospective review, page 350:
 * Presumption and vain glory, / Envy, wrath, and lechery, / Covetess, and gluttony, / Slothful to do good, /
 * but 1913, Bell's English History Source Books
 * / Envy, wrath , and lechery, / Covetousness and gluttony, / Slothful to do good, /
 * 1907, Frederick Pollock, The Law Quarterly Review, page 449, quoting theoath of office of serjeants elect in England in the 14th and 15th centuries:
 * " and you shall not defer nor delay their causes willingly, for covetess of money or other thing that may turn you to profit; and you shall give due attendance accordingly."
 * but 1719, M. Shelton, An Historical and Critical Essay on the true rise of Nobility political and civil [...] second edition, page 581:
 * Causes willingly, for Covetousness of Money or other Thing, that may tend to his Profit.