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esuriences

esuriences is the plural of esurience.

Meaning of esurience

Noun

esurience (usually uncountable, plural esuriences)

  1. (usually) The 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

Questions about esuriences

What is esuriences the plural of?
Esuriences is the plural of esurience.

Words near esuriences in the dictionary

  1. Estée
  2. Estérel
  3. ESU
  4. esuprone
  5. esurience
  6. esuriences
  7. esuriency
  8. esurient
  9. esuriently
  10. esurients
  11. esurine

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