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appetency en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
Forms
Synonyms
compulsion · craving · appetite