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adjectiveavidous (comparative more avidous, superlative most avidous)
comparative more avidous · superlative most avidous
- obsoleteavid; keen; desirous
[…] an aged thorn, which threw its shrivelled and moss-covered branches towards the loch, as if avidous of moisture.
1824, The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, page 5391 more example
Charles I. emulating and avidous of the absolute power and despotism of the house of Bourbon, first adventured in imitation of France […]
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
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