esurient
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
esurient
- (formal, now, often, humorous) Very greedy or hungry; ravenous; (figuratively) avid, eager. [from late 17th c.]
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:voracious
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Maurepas”, in The French Revolution: A History [...] In Three Volumes, volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782 ↗, book II (The Paper Age), page 43 ↗:
- Caron Beaumarchais (or de Beaumarchais [Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais], for he got ennobled) had been born poor, but aspiring, esurient; with talents, audacity, adroitness; above all, with the talent for intrigue: a lean, but also tough indomitable man.
esurient (plural esurients)
- One who is greedy or hungry.
- 1691, [Anthony Wood], “PHILIPP NYE”, in Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (
please specify ), London: Printed for Tho[mas] Bennet […], column 370 ↗: - {{#if:Sure it is that he [{{w|
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