avidous

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avidous (comparative more avidous, superlative most avidous)

  1. (obsolete) avid; keen; desirous
    • 1794, Ezra Stiles, A History of Three of the Judges of King Charles I Major General Whalley, Major-General Goffe and Colonel Dixwell, page 335:
      Charles I. emulating and avidous of the absolute power and despotism of the house of Bourbon, first adventured in imitation of France []
    • 1824, The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, page 539:
      [] an aged thorn, which threw its shrivelled and moss-covered branches towards the loch, as if avidous of moisture.