Literary notes about Edacious (AI summary)
The term "edacious" in literature frequently serves as a vivid metaphor for insatiable hunger or greed, whether describing a character’s personality or the relentless force of nature. It is often paired with other dynamic adjectives to deepen the portrayal of excess, as in the depiction of someone who is not only loquacious but also consumed by an endless appetite ([1]). In poetic contexts, the word expands its reach to embody the ceaseless, eroding passage of time or the pervasive consumption by natural forces, illustrated by phrases like "the edacious tooth of Time" and a portrayal of the years themselves as voracious ([2], [3], [4]). Such usage enriches the narrative by imbuing abstract concepts with a tangible, often ominous quality of greed and unquenchable desire ([5], [6]).
- And that he became audacious, edacious, and loquacious, is evident from such wit and flippancy as he here likes to display.
— from The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani - I reminded my talented young parishioner and friend that Concord Bridge had long since yielded to the edacious tooth of Time.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862
A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various - Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea.
— from Among the Forces by Henry White Warren - The stars proceeded in their courses, Nature with her subversive forces, Time, too, the iron-toothed and sinewed; And the edacious years continued.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 22
Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson - If, mounting MALAMBRUNO's steed, He showed more sanguine than sagacious, He was not moved by huckster greed, Or pride edacious.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 29, 1890 by Various - gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c.v.; edacious[obs3], omnivorous, crapulent[obs3], swinish.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget