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voracity

[ vaw-ras-i-tee, voh-, vuh- ]

noun

  1. the condition or quality of being voracious.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of voracity1

1520–30; < Latin ±¹´Ç°ùÄ峦¾±³ÙÄå²õ, equivalent to ±¹´Ç°ùÄ峦- (stem of ±¹´Ç°ùÄå³æ ) gluttonous + -¾±³ÙÄå²õ -ity
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It took me a decade to catch up with his 1964 memoir, which is titled after a racial epithet and swims with intellectual voracity and banked anger.

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A magician who later challenged spoon benders, mind readers and faith healers with such voracity that he became regarded as the country’s foremost skeptic.

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I am not a writer of John Lennon’s notoriety, and I am not possessed of his voracity for sensationalism.

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He felt the tingling in his hands, the lightness in his head, the heaviness of his heart, and it consumed him, filled him to the brim with a bitterness and voracity that burned his throat.

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Kuchukhidze emphasized the importance for those trying to penetrate high wealth and political echelons of Ukraine to “demonstrate†their closeness and give voracity to claims that they could “solve big political and business issues.â€

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