Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. 2. (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

Multi-Version Concordance Rapacity (2 Occurrences) Matthew 23:25 Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence. (See RSV) Jeremiah 51:13 Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity. (DBY)