US /ə'vɪdətɪ/
・UK /ə'vɪdətɪ/
centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another;
this familiar, that I called out of my own soul and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous, his every act and thought centred on self, drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone.
The naked heart can hear echoes, echoes, and somehow here I found avidity.
And somehow, here I found avidity...
So maybe you need some kind of avidity effect to get it.
Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollections, nor was there any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of some fearful tale of midnight murder, in which the Natas of the forest were the principal and barbarous actors.
any ear in the provinces so deaf as not to have drunk in with avidity the narrative of