appetency

How To Use appetency In A Sentence

• And looking down on the unthinking city, the Cathedral kept watch alone, beseeching pardon for the inappetency for suffering, for the inertia of faith that her sons displayed, uplifting her towers to the sky like two arms, while the spires mimicked the shape of joined hands, the ten fingers all meeting and upright one against another, in the position which the image-makers of old gave to the dead saints and warriors they carved upon tombs. The Cathedral
• The human mind has a natural appetency for truth.
• Her virtues lay in no resistant force of character, but in a natural inappetency for evil things, which to her were as unmeaning as joints of flesh to a herbivorous creature. A Group of Noble Dames
• Upon the whole, then, the great argument for literary endowments is founded on the want, or the weakness of the natural appetency for literature in our species.
• Your inappetency, without doubt, is only owing to the aversion you have to a discovery. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
• So the presence of any object could be no inducement to sin, were there not a constitutional appetency or craving for sin.
• Sometimes the stomach is torpid along with the pained membrane of the head; and then sickness and inappetency attends either as a cause or consequence. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• The movements of their adapted fluids in the various vessels of the body are carried forwards by the actions of those vessels in consequence of two kinds of stimulus, one of which may be compared to a pleasurable sensation or desire inducing the vessel to seize, and, as it were, to swallow the particles thus selected from the blood; as is done by the mouths of the various glands, veins, and other absorbents, which may be called glandular appetency. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
• It is not true that sinners have a constitutional appetency and craving for sin.
• No discrimination was observed; the robust young man, with an iron constitution, was, so far as related to food, placed on a par with the poor invalid, debilitated with protracted suffering or dying of inappetency. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale