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rapacities

rapacities is the plural of rapacity.

Meaning of rapacity

Noun

rapacity (countable and uncountable, plural rapacities)

  1. The quality of being rapacious; voracity.
    • Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Animals of the Hare Kind”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume IV, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse...

Questions about rapacities

What is rapacities the plural of?
Rapacities is the plural of rapacity.

Words near rapacities in the dictionary

  1. rapable
  2. rapaceous
  3. rapacious
  4. rapaciously
  5. rapaciousness
  6. rapacities
  7. rapacity
  8. rapacuronium
  9. RAPADILINO
  10. rapakivi
  11. rapakivis

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