covetousness - Meaning in Hindi

Meaning of covetousness in Hindi

  • लोभ
  • लोलुपता
  • स्पृहा

covetousness Definition

Noun

  • eager or excessive desire, especially for wealth or possessions.

covetousness Example

  • 16) accuses them of covetousness and tells us that Themiso purchased his freedom from imprisonment by a considerable payment. ( १६) उन पर लोभ का आरोप लगाते हैं और हमें बताते हैं कि थेमिसो ने काफी भुगतान करके कैद से अपनी स्वतंत्रता खरीदी। )
  • If she gives herself over to anger, to sloth, to covetousness, or envy, the father sees nothing.  ( यदि वह अपने आप को क्रोध, आलस्य, लोभ, या ईर्ष्या के हवाले कर देती है, तो पिता को कुछ नहीं दिखता। )
  • For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth and smote him, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.  ( उसके लोभ के अधर्म के कारण मैं ने क्रोधित होकर उसे मारा, और वह अपके मन की सी चाल चलता रहा। )
  • Noting my covetousness, a native woman lifted her cross off her neck and placed it around mine. ( मेरे लोभ को देखते हुए, एक देशी महिला ने अपने गले से क्रॉस उठाकर मेरे चारों ओर रख दिया। )

More Sentence

  • It can be more subtle or it can be strong, such as covetousness, the desire for someone else's property.  
  • It is this covetousness that fuels corruption in public life and communalises politics.  
  • In this case, that means that lying, disobedience to your parents, and covetousness could all qualify me or you for that appellation.  
  • It may be difficult to define greed, but it's easy to define covetousness.  
  • Pleonexia, or greed, the wishing and trying for the bigger share, we know under the name of covetousness.
  • the bishops and priests, of the wide-spread covetousness and vainglory as well as the growing heresies among Christians generally, agree with similar accounts in 2 Peter, 2 Timothy and Clement of Rome.
  • Dante was perhaps too severe on Robert, whom he described as a re da sermone (word king), and contemporary critics accused him of covetousness, a fault partly excused by his pressing need of money to pay the expenses of his perpetual wars.
  • As Harnack says, "There is no trace of any tendency beyond the immediate purpose of maintaining the true Christian life in the church and warning it against covetousness and against an unbrotherly spirit.
  • It is the covetousness of the negative greedy little ant.
  • Covetousness and a revolting greed gleamed joyfully in his eyes.
  • Incline our hearts unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
  • In the last phase of verse 7 Paul uses covetousness as an illustration.
  • God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers.
  • The over-arching bird-sin of covetousness: that the Hebrews brought into the world.
  • Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye.
  • Let your conduct be without covetousness, and be content with such things as you have.
  • For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, You shall not covet.
  • A Herredag, or Assembly of Nobles, was held at Copenhagen on the 2nd of July 1530, ostensibly to mediate between the two conflicting confessions, but the king, from policy, and the nobility, from covetousness of the estates of the prelates, made no attempt to prevent the excesses of the Protestant rabble, openly encouraged by Tausen.
  • Paul called covetousness the root of all evils.
  • The concept includes in its scope non-covetousness, and non-possessiveness.
  • The first three commandments demand respect for covetousness.
  • "There is a difference between appreciation and covetousness, " he says.
  • Thirdly, covetousness is the third worldly evil, which is also known as lust.
  • Covetousness constitutes a disease that is incurable.
  • It's difficult to see covetousness in a sentence .
  • In the New Testament, Jesus covetousness.
  • Anthony identifies the third temptation as covetousness.
  • There is no trace, however, of any Syriac god of such a name, and the common identification of the name with a god of covetousness or avarice is chiefly due to Milton (Paradise Lost, i.