inordinateness

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A. But such is often the corrupt inordinateness of greatness, that it only carries them so much beyond other men, but not so much nearer to God.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

On one side lived an inordinately rich South African millionaire, and on the other an inordinately exalted person of title, which facts combined to form sufficient grounds for a certain inordinateness of rent.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

But, in venial sin, there is an inordinateness of the act and of the affections.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Consequently, from their very nature, they can have no inordinateness in respect of the means, unless at the same time they have an inordinateness in respect of the end, and this is a mortal sin.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It remains therefore that the first inordinateness of the human appetite resulted from his coveting inordinately some spiritual good.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint