ravening
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ravening
- /ˈɹævənɪŋ/ US
Where it comes from
Present participle of the obsolete verb raven (“to prey”).
adjective more ravening · most ravening
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Voracious and greedy.
There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery.
Similar: ravenous
- Subject to the voracity of a predator. To be the strongers rauening pray the weaker did begin, And might went for oppressed right […]
noun ravenings
- Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption. Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.
- Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.
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