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unˈsatisfying, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 234 Not resting therefore in this unsatisfying answere, we will in the next place shew [etc.]. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xiii, Parting with unsatisfying Trifles. 1760–2Goldsm. Cit. W. xxxvii, In this also..enthusiastic confidence or unsatisfying doubts terminate all our inquiries. 1813Shelley Q. Mab iv. 248 Days of unsatisfying listlessness. 1837Lytton Athens I. 469 With this unsatisfying reply the messenger returned. 1879McCarthy Own Times xxviii. II. 351 The political results of the war were to many minds equally unsatisfying.
Hence unˈsatisfyingness.
1650Trapp Comm. Gen. xxv. 29 The curse of unsatisfyingness that lies upon them [sc. carnal pleasures]. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. 363 Its vagueness to the mere intellect,..its satisfying unsatisfyingness, its vast atmosphere. |