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English
Noun
esurience (usually uncountable, plural esuriences)
- The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, part I, page 78: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.