esurience
(iːsjʊərɪəns)
[f. L. ēsurient-em. pr. pple. of ēsurīre: see esurient and -ence.]
The state of being esurient; hunger, appetite; ‘neediness and greediness’.
| 1825 Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 338 Esurience..the origin and interpretation of whose name is found in the Hebrew root signifying hunger, and thence capacity. 1851 Carlyle Sterling i. viii. (1872) 53 A ray of empyrean light;—but imbedded..in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it. 1889 Swinburne Study Ben Jonson 40 No pretext beyond the fact of esurience..is suggested for the villainy of Subtle. |