Meanings
nounesurience (usually uncountable, plural esuriences)
plural esuriences
- uncountableusuallyThe quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78
Synonyms & antonyms
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