hungering

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hunger

noun

1. The condition of one who hungers.

   “[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.”