Usage examples (25)

• It is that sense of life-preserving and life-enhancing appetency which is the conscious accompaniment of struggle.
• "appetency" of the liver, it was said, was for the elements of bile, and "biliosity," or the "hepatic sensation," guided the gland to their secretion.
• Perhaps "need" is too strong of a word; perhaps I'm looking for something like "hankering for" or "appetency".
• The maternal instinct had awakened all its fierceness, and as the blood commenced to flow in streams from the deep scratches and bites inflicted by its teeth and claws, its...