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What is an appetency?

What is an appetency? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Strong desire; craving; powerful instinct.
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Here he yields nothing, as he owes nothing, to that appetency which binds him to the natural world.
The church of Durham, he said, was the great object of their appetency.
If the word veut has suggested the doctrine of appetency in meaning has been pushed too far by the critics of Lamarck.
It is from the combination and the workings of these wonderful powers that appetency, desires, aversions, and volition arise.
The doctrine of appetency attributed to Lamarck is without foundation.
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.

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