Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rapacity

Rapacity (rȧ*pas"i*ty) , noun

[Latin rapacitas: compare French rapacité. See Rapacious.]

1.
The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
2.
The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
The rapacity of some ages. — Sprat