Ra*pac"i*ty (r&adot;*păs"&ibreve;*t&ybreve;), n. [L. rapacitas: cf. F.
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.
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