hungerern.
/ˈhʌŋɡərə/ One who suffers hunger; one who longs or craves.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > strong or eager desire > [noun] > craving > one who craves
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxii. 6 And voide he shal make the soule of the hungrere.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 6 A hungerer after loaves and fishes.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 471/1 Nothing in Milton is finelier fancied than these temperate dreams of the divine Hungerer.
1842 Croly Hist. Sk. 90 The thwarted hungerer for office takes up the miserable commonplaces of politics; and is the radical.
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