What does famishment mean?
Famishment means (now literary) The state or process of being famished..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈfæmɪʃmənt/ · noun
(now literary) The state or process of being famished..
Sith you will not attend true Wisedoms Words, Laugh and bee fatt, sith al you touch is Gold, Though that foode your Soules famishment affordes.
[…] among the French planters, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment during the great portion of the year.
As the young Cuban tasted his flesh, his tropical appetite long depressed by the North American dryness suddenly revived, and brought to his mind the thought of his long famishment.
He churned the emptiness of my stomach, and stirred the fury of my famishment.
And there ſhalbe erthquakes / in all quarters / and famyſſhment / and troubles.
Use famishment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Famishment means (now literary) The state or process of being famished..
Common synonyms include hunger, inanition, malnourishment, starvation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Sith you will not attend true Wisedoms Words, Laugh and bee fatt, sith al you touch is Gold, Though that foode your Soules famishment affordes.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.