appetency

Example Sentences

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A long cigarette holder between her thin lips, one putty-colored lisle stocking showing to the knee, she exhaled, together with an odor of Florentine orris-root, a ruthless vigor and appetency for pleasure.

From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French

Such appetency or bare consciousness is the essential or substantial state of that which appears as physical nature.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

Natural Perception, Sensitive Perception, and Perception regulated by animal appetency.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

But the hypothesis of appetency and volition, as of natural selection, are less applicable, less intelligible, in connection with the changes in the teeth.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

For her attitude, perhaps you will agree, towards her object, is not simply one of perception, but one of appetency and enjoyment.

From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by Dickinson, G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes)