Definition of "appetence"

appetence

/ˈæp.ɪ.təns/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural appetences
1. The state or action of desiring or craving.
  Quotations
  [T]hat fair femal Troop […] / Bred onely and completed to the taſte / Of luſtful appetence, to ſing, to dance, / To dreſs, and troule the Tongue, and roule the Eye.
  1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 610 and 614–616
  The days passed quickly; I could see that the professor was all quivering with suppressed excitement, and I could scarce credit the eager appetence of his glance as we left the old manor house behind us, and began our journey.
  1895, Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors
  They had assumed the wild sweet freedom of jacking off in their inviolable privacy. Their appetence became resilient with repetition.
  1974, Davenport, Tatlin!