inanition

• And yet, even worse than this languorous inanition is the active policy of those who despise everything contemporary or native, and substitute sciolism for catholicity, contempt for analysis While the greater part of the world has stayed aloof, the problem of a national American music has been solving itself. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• As the concierge had said, he was perishing from inanition, and the physician we called in assured us that only the most constant attention would save his life Monsieur," Clélie explained to him upon the first occasion upon which he opened his eyes, "you are ill and alone, and we wish to befriend you." —  Esmeralda
• Such dies of inanition--the sooner that its object is out of the way, and absence in time will conquer it The third is the love that "dotes yet doubts," that doubts but never dies--no never. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
• I said that under these laws of inanition, the craving of the human heart for some kind of excitement could be supplied from one source only. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
• You looked through to stimulate the romance in your starved soul and save it from death by inanition, because if romance died, then indeed the Outer Life at Hillard House would be no longer bearable Barrie paid her respects to the keyhole o' mornings, for two reasons. —  The Heather-Moon

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