Cu-pĭd'ĭ-ty, n.

n. [Lat. cupiditas, from cupidus, longing, desiring, from cupere, to long for, desire; Fr. cupidité, Pr. cupiditat, It. cu-pidità.] Eager desire to possess something; inordinate or unlawful desire, especially of wealth or power; covetousness; lust.

With the feelings of political distrust, were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.