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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 rapaciousness
 強奪;貪婪

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ra·pa·cious a.
 1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. “ The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.”
 2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird.
 3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
    [Thy Lord] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim   --Milton.
 Syn: -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious.
 -- Ra*pa*cious*ly, adv. -- Ra*pa*cious*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 rapaciousness
      n : extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapacity, voracity,
           voraciousness]