Definition of "hungers" []

• Plural form of hunger. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hunger. (verb)

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• "But this bright season ended quite as suddenly as it had begun; and when these great "hungers" -- as those veterans were entitled who dealt most freely with the marvellous -- had laid their heads together to produce and confirm another guinea's worth of fiction, the London press would have none of it."
• "A refusal to “eat” (seek to possess, control) that for which one hungers is a way of honoring that which is eternally beautiful in the world: “We want to eat all the other objects of desire."
• "Thus, to read the letters of Bayard Taylor is to meet a poet who bewails the lack of poetic material in America and who "hungers," as he says, for the romance and beauty of other lands."