also: どんれい
avariciousness and inhumanity
Archaic term combining greed with cruelty or lack of human feeling; not used in modern Japanese outside of classical or historical contexts.
In classical texts, avaricious and inhumane conduct is strictly admonished.
Archaic kanji spelling; the reading たんれい is the standard on'yomi for these characters.
Alternate reading using the kan'on reading どん for 貪; less common than たんれい.
Compound of 貪 (greed) and 戻 (perversity, cruelty). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it appears in classical Chinese-influenced Japanese texts.