appetence
(ˈæpɪtəns)
[a. Fr. appétence desire, ad. L. appetentia: see next.]
The action of seeking for or longing after; appetite, desire.
| 1610 G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. xxxix, Whatsoe'er might..please the appetence, Here it was poured out in lavish affluence. 1765 Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 256 An inward feeling, a moral sense, or appetence towards the thing apprehended. 1836 W. A. Butler in Blackw. Mag. XXXIX. 454 To love, and in the appetence of love To deem thyself beloved. |