hungering

English

Verb

hungering

1. present participle and gerund of hunger

Noun

hungering (plural hungerings)

1. The condition of one who hungers.
   • 1680, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], 5th edition, Edinburgh: […] Iohn Cairns, […], →OCLC, page 80:

     [H]e findeth moreover revealed in him the Saviour of the World and the absolute neceſſity of cloſing with him, for life at the which he findeth hungerings and thirſtings after him, to which hungerings, &c., the promiſe is made.