ravening

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Voracious and greedy.

   • There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
   • O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
2. 2

   Subject to the voracity of a predator.

   • To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […]
   • Away with him into the open fields, To be a rauening pray to Crowes and Kites:
3. 3

   Predation (by an animal)

   Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.

   • Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.
   • Consider whether the lusty person were in foretyme geuen to moche drynkyng, eatyng and rauenyng, tomoch ease, to no exercise or bathinges in his helth, or no.
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   1. 4

      Eagerness for plunder

      Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

      • We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.
      • And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

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