"appetency" meaning in All languages combined

See appetency on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: appetencies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} appetency (countable and uncountable, plural appetencies)
  1. Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: appetite, compulsion, craving
    Sense id: en-appetency-en-noun-Nm07KMib Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.",
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