noun. The character of being rapacious; the exercise of a rapacious or predaceous disposition; the act or practice of seizing by force, as plunder or prey, or of obtaining by extortion or chicanery, as unjust gains: as, the rapacity of pirates, of usurers, or of wild beasts.

noun. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness

noun. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

noun. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

noun. reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

noun. extreme gluttony

"Now it unfortunately happened that Mr. Butterfield remembered to have heard the word rapacity used by a brother-magistrate, at the quarter-sessions, in a very different sense than the one to which it had just been applied by his lady."