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Definition of Appetencies
1. appetency [n] - See also: appetency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appetencies
Literary usage of Appetencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated by James McCosh (1867)
"They are at least three in number: the appetencies,— including the Emotions ...
I. There are the native appetencies OP THE MIND LEADING TO EMOTIONS. ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1846)
"It is felt in a hundred different turns of thought and feeling; many secret
appetencies miss their accustomed object, and a general sense of inward safety, ..."
3. Paley's Natural Theology: With Illustrative Notes by William Paley, Charles Bell (1853)
"The argument against the doctrine of appetencies may be urged thus upon well-known
facts. If the camel's bunch has arisen from the animal, ..."
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