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Esurient

adjective
1.
Extremely hungry.  Synonyms: famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved.  "A ravenous boy" , "The family was starved and ragged" , "Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
2.
(often followed by 'for') ardently or excessively desirous.  Synonyms: avid, devouring, greedy.  "An avid ambition to succeed" , "Fierce devouring affection" , "The esurient eyes of an avid curiosity" , "Greedy for fame"
3.
Devouring or craving food in great quantities.  Synonyms: edacious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish.  "A rapacious appetite" , "Ravenous as wolves" , "Voracious sharks"






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"Esurient" Quotes from Famous Books



... those who follow Literature simply because they see no other opening for their incompetence; just as forlorn widows and ignorant old maids thrown suddenly on their own resources open a school—no other means of livelihood seeming to be within their reach. Lowest of all are those whose esurient vanity, acting on a frivolous levity of mind, urges them to make Literature a plaything for display. To write for a livelihood, even on a complete misapprehension of our powers, is at least a respectable impulse. To play at Literature is altogether inexcusable: ...
— The Principles of Success in Literature • George Henry Lewes

... "The Titan of the Forlorn Hope" of the French Revolution, born at Arcis-sur-Aube, "of good farmer people ... a huge, brawny, black-browed man, with a waste energy as of a Hercules"; an advocate by profession, "esurient, but with nothing to do; found Paris and his country in revolt, rose to the front of the strife; resolved to do or die"; the cause threatened, he threw himself again and again into the breach defiant, his motto ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... is coming back to us, she promises. Her dialect is very vernacular,—extremely exotic in the London climate. If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. I could not show her Alfred (he ...
— The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. • Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson



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