COVETOUS, a.
1. Very desirous eager to obtain in a good sense as covetous of wisdom, virtue or learning.
2. Inordinately desirous excessively eager to obtain and possess directed to money or goods, avaricious.
A bishop must not be covetous. 1 Timothy 3 .
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