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  • 41List of Biblical names — This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource: : Hitchcock s New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869.Each name is given with its …

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  • 42Giacomo Casanova — Casanova redirects here. For other uses, see Casanova (disambiguation). Giacomo Casanova Born 2 April 1725(1725 04 02) Venice, Republic of Venice …

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  • 43desire — de·sire vt de·sired, de·sir·ing: to wish for earnestly see also precatory ◇ Courts have variously interpreted desire in wills to indicate either a direction of the testator that must be followed or merely an expression of what the testator hoped… …

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  • 44greed — noun acquisitiveness, appetency, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, aviditas, avidity, covetousness, crapulence, cupiditas, cupidity, desire to hoard wealth, eagerness, edacity, excess, gluttonous appettite, gluttony, greediness, guiosity,… …

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  • 45mammon — Not a Hebrew word, but an Aramaic noun used in the Greek of Matt. 6:24, translated ‘wealth’, NRSV, ‘money’, REB, NJB; familiar in modern English in a pejorative sense; ill gotten gains, or self centred covetousness, which takes possession of a… …

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  • 46acquisition — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of obtaining Nouns 1. (something acquired) acquisition, acquirement, accession, obtainment, procurement; collection, accumulation, amassing, gathering, reaping, gleaning, picking (up); trover. See… …

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  • 47avidity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. eagerness, longing, desire; keenness, alacrity; avarice, greed, voracity. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality or condition of being voracious: edacity, omnivorousness, rapaciousness,… …

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  • 48desire — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Craving Nouns 1. desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need (see necessity). 2. desirability, appeal, magnetism, attraction. 3. inclination, mind, devices, animus, partiality, penchant, predilection;… …

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  • 49emotion — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. feeling, sentiment, passion, sensibility, sensation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. feeling(s), sentiment, passion, sensation, affect, perturbation, agitation, tremor, excitement, disturbance, tumult,… …

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  • 50sin — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. impiety, sacrilege, transgression, wickedness, impurity, iniquity, vice; offense, crime, fault, error, peccadillo. v. i. transgress, err, offend. See guilt, wrong, badness, evil. II (Roget s IV) n.… …

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