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† insaˈtiety Obs.
Also 7 insaciety.
[a. obs. F. insacieté, -satieté (Godef.), ad. L. insatietās: see in-3 and satiety.]
The condition of being insatiate; unsatisfied desire or demand.
1578Florio 1st Fruites 66 The temperance and vertue of the one is commendable, the insaciety and wickednes of the other is to be condemned. a1632T. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. v. (1642) 63 Who knowing his great avarice, caused molten gold to be pour'd downe his throate, deriding his insaciety. a1668Sir W. Waller Div. Medit. (1839) 136 What an insatiety is there in all these delights. |