appetency
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It is that sense of life-preserving and life-enhancing appetency which is the conscious accompaniment of struggle.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
It was something like having a sixth sense bestowed on him—this new appetency for all manner of things towards which until now he had only felt a vague indifference.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
He says that tædium vitæ as in the case of Hamlet is due to ‘unchecked appetency of the ideal.’
From More Pages from a Journal by Mark Rutherford
There is a literary appetite, which the author can no more impart than the most skilful cook can give an appetency to the guests.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The instincts of men, the appetencies which they possess in common with the whole animal creation, are each made the source of disease, and premature decay.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
