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inanition
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Definition:1. vacantness2. starvation3. spiritual emptiness [philosophy]
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I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Upon my recovery, too, I felt very— oh, inexpressibly sick and weak, as if through long inanition. Even amid the agonies of that period, the human nature craved food.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
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It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength,
James Joyce. Ulysses
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