[a. Fr. appétence desire, ad. L. appetentia: see next.] The action of seeking for or longing after; appetite, desire.

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1610.  G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., xxxix. Whatsoe’er might … please the appetence, Here it was poured out in lavish affluence.

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1765.  Tucker, Lt. Nat., II. 256. An inward feeling, a moral sense, or appetence towards the thing apprehended.

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1836.  W. A. Butler, in Blackw. Mag., XXXIX. 454.

        To love, and in the appetence of love
To deem thyself beloved, to doubt, discover,
Despair, and die.

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