English Dictionary

ravening

/ˈɹævənɪŋ/

noun

(archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption. / Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

The ravening of the wolves could be heard from miles away.

意味（1）

(archaic, literary) Predation (by an animal); voracious eating or consumption.

Some rather deuoure than eate their meate non other wyse than suche as be ledde in to prison. This rauenyng and deuourynge is appropred to theues.

意味（2）

Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

We must kyll diuelish pryde, furious angre, insatiable couetousnes, filthy lucre, stinking lechery, deadly hatred & malice, foxy wilines, woluish rauening & deuouring, and al other vnreasonable lustes and desires of the fleshe.