Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
inappetence .
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- noun Alternative form of
inappetence .
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Examples
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Your inappetency, without doubt, is only owing to the aversion you have to a discovery.
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No discrimination was observed; the robust young man, with an iron constitution, was, so far as related to food, placed on a par with the poor invalid, debilitated with protracted suffering or dying of inappetency.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale John Sherburne Sleeper
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Her virtues lay in no resistant force of character, but in a natural inappetency for evil things, which to her were as unmeaning as joints of flesh to a herbivorous creature.
A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884
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It is given with good effect as a stomachic, in inappetency and weakness of the digestive organs.
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Sometimes the stomach is torpid along with the pained membrane of the head; and then sickness and inappetency attends either as a cause or consequence.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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And looking down on the unthinking city, the Cathedral kept watch alone, beseeching pardon for the inappetency for suffering, for the inertia of faith that her sons displayed, uplifting her towers to the sky like two arms, while the spires mimicked the shape of joined hands, the ten fingers all meeting and upright one against another, in the position which the image-makers of old gave to the dead saints and warriors they carved upon tombs.
The Cathedral 1877
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