appetence

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Of course, its arguments can also be used to legitimize human suicide, but being a Catholic priest, maybe Dr. Umbers is counting on our love for the whales and appetence to help them when stranded, to see the other way around and question precisely human suicide (and other related topics).

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  1. noun A strong craving or desire.
  2. noun A tendency or propensity.
  3. noun A natural attraction or affinity.

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  • Of course, its arguments can also be used to legitimize human suicide, but being a Catholic priest, maybe Dr. Umbers is counting on our love for the whales and appetence to help them when stranded, to see the other way around and question precisely human suicide (and other related topics). —  MercatorNet
  • Much of this difference in sexual appetence is doubtless due to the chastity of their lives, coupled with and resulting from the difference of education. —  The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene
  • There was no thief on the course who did not wait, in hungry appetence, the sportsman's descent from the stand; yet the novice outstripped them all. —  A Book of Scoundrels
  • Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, —  Paradise Lost
  • By nature have a mutual appetence, —  Hero and Leander and Other Poems
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  1. Probably French appétence, from Latin appetentia, from appetēns, appetent-, present participle of appetere, to strive after; see appetite.
 

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/ˈæpiktəns, tənsi/
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