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Definition of Esurience
1. Noun. Excessive desire to eat.
Generic synonyms: Hunger, Hungriness
Derivative terms: Edacious, Esurient, Ravenous, Ravenous, Voracious, Voracious
2. Noun. Extreme gluttony.
Generic synonyms: Gluttony
Derivative terms: Edacious, Esurient, Rapacious, Rapacious, Voracious, Voracious
Definition of Esurience
1. Noun. The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Esurience
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Esurience
Literary usage of Esurience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1875)
"Her great creel forehead slung, she wanders nigh, Easing the heavy strap with
gnarled, brown fingers, A deep esurience in her anxious eye, Ever and anon ..."
2. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1839)
"... of a hecatomb of animals for health's sake would be as justifiable as the
slaughter of a herd of oxen for his esurience, and on the same grounds. ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1834)
"... the ground of being containing the possibility of existence, from being actualized.
In the language of the Mysteries, it was the esurience, ..."
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