devouring

noun

devouring

noun

1

The act by which something is devoured.

But like all the other symbolic devourings in the novel, this one too brings its revelation.1982, Frederick Asals, Flannery O'Connor, the Imagination of Extremity, page 189:

Related terms: omnivorousness, voraciousness

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