appetence

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or action of desiring or craving. countable,uncountable
    — [T]hat fair femal Troop […] / Bred onely and completed to the taſte / Of luſtful appetence, to ſing, to dance, / To dreſs, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye.

词形变化

appetences plural

词源

Circa 1600, from French appétence, from Latin appetentia, from appetere (“to seek after”). Doublet of appetite.
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