Careful Words

avarice (n.)

  The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. Chap. ii.

  I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Edward Moore (1712-1757): The Gamester. Act ii. Sc. 2.

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice

I think I must take up with avarice.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 216.

That disease

Of which all old men sicken,—avarice.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627): The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1.