Definition of "covetise"

covetise

/ˈkʌvɪtaɪz/

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth.
  Quotations
  Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse, Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize, That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie