appetency
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Intellectualism would make will merely the concluding phase of thought, while voluntarism would reduce thought to one of the interests of a general appetency.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
It is from the combination and the workings of these wonderful powers that appetency, desires, aversions, and volition arise.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
The coarse fare became viands of rare appetency.
From Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys by John McElroy
This at first suggests an appetency for another language like the dog-Latin gibberish of children.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley Hall
In like manner, there is in the illuminated and guilt-smitten conscience an appetency for the piacular work of Christ, as that which alone can give it pacification.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
The instincts of men, the appetencies which they possess in common with the whole animal creation, are each made the source of disease, and premature decay.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
In this early formation of the embryon from the irritabilities, sensibilities, and associabilities, and consequent appetencies, the faculty of volition can scarcely be supposed to have had its birth.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
