Definition of Thirsting

1. Verb. (present participle of thirst) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thirsting

1. thirst [v] - See also: thirst

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thirsting

thirled
thirling
thirls
thirst
thirst fever
thirst for knowledge
thirsted
thirster
thirsters
thirsteth
thirstier
thirstiest
thirstily
thirstiness
thirstinesses
thirsting (current term)
thirstland
thirstless
thirsts
thirsty
thirsty(p)
thirsty work
thirteen
thirteen hundred
thirteenfold
thirteenish
thirteenness
thirteenpence
thirteenpenny
thirteens

Literary usage of Thirsting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical treatises on the pathology and therapy of disorders of metabolism by Karl Harko von Noorden (1905)
"It was shown that the effect of thirsting was much more intense than the ... Other investigations are concerned with the effect of thirsting upon the blood. ..."

2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"As I was thirsting for company quite as much as for wine, I bade mine host sit at table with me and partake. I asked him (the calls of hunger partially ..."

3. An American Missionary in Japan by Marquis Lafayette Gordon (1892)
"This is implied in the blessing pronounced by our Lord upon the limited number who are, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. ..."

4. An American Missionary in Japan by Marquis Lafayette Gordon (1892)
"As a matter of fact, the multitudes are not thirsting for the gospel. This is implied in the blessing pronounced by our Lord upon the limited number who are ..."

5. An American Missionary in Japan by Marquis Lafayette Gordon (1892)
"As a matter of fact, the multitudes are not thirsting for the gospel. ... Lord upon the limited number who are hungering and thirsting after righteousness. ..."

6. Meditations and Contemplations by James Hervey (1836)
"... sense o GUI aib sery, and "thirsting for salvation, we turn to him through, , to conclude, that, if there were heavier chah» per dungeon in the world of ..."

7. The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life by Hannah More (1827)
"... ing appellative. would have been as base and treacherous. of affection, their plea will be admitted as ded the wants of those who were 'thirsting valid, ..."

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