单词 | insatiability |
释义 | insatiabilityn. The quality of being insatiable; insatiableness. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > uneasy or restless desire > [noun] > unsatisfiedness > quality of being insatiable unsatiableness1541 insatiableness1647 unsatisfiableness1647 insatiability1654 abarcy1730 1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea iv. 275 To please the insatiability of those, who deprived me of mine owne. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 38. ⁋8 An eagerness for increase of possessions deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulphs of insatiability. 1846 Blackwood's Mag. 59 405 The..recklessness, and insatiability of the democrat spirit. 1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. vi. 311 With the usual short-sightedness of commercial insatiability, they..joined in the clamour against the East India Company's exclusive privileges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1654 |
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