Also 4 couetour, -eyter, 6 covoiter. [f. COVET v. + -OUR, -ER2 3: cf. F. convoiteur.] One who covets or is given to coveting.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Compl. Mars, 262. The couetour that was so nyce.

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1382.  Wyclif, 1 Cor. x. 6. We ben not coueyteris of yuelis.

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1554.  Philpot, Exam. & Writ. (Parker Soc.), 326. Covoiters of newelties and busy bodies.

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1731.  Medley, Kolben’s Cape G. Hope, II. 272. Of these flowers the European women at the Cape are great coveters.

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1850.  Tait’s Mag., 32/1. The coveters of his tenement.

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