insatiate

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The marshals and generals were insatiate, and the greed of the civil administrators was scarcely less.

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  1. adjective Insatiable.

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  • Your desire is insatiate, mine is satisfied Do you know, sir," said a devotee of Mammon to John Bright, "that I am worth a million sterling?" —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
  • Your desire is insatiate, mine is satisfied Lord, how many things are in the world of which Diogenes hath no need!" —  How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
  • Where are you going to draw the line The passions of men are insatiate, even in modern society; the more you yield to them, the stronger grows their craving. —  Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence
  • Here, by the aid of modern instruments and modern modes of analysis, the most ardent and earnest spirits may find ample room and verge enough for their insatiate activity and audacious enterprise, and may pursue their course not only without the slightest danger of doing mischief to others, but with the certainty of promoting the great end of scientific truth Let them lift their vast reflectors or refractors to the skies, and detect new planets in their hiding places. —  McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
  • Hungry, desirous, insatiate--the voice of that fearful and balefully luring world--there sounded eternally the roar and crash of the breaking golden waves Over the uneven scraggy promontory, blinded by the fierce sunlight, Annadoah staggered. —  The Eternal Maiden
 

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  1. Latin īnsatiātus : in-, not; see in-1 + satiātus, past participle of satiāre, to satisfy; see satiate.

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  1. from Late Latin insatiatus, unsatisfied, from Latin in- privative + satiatus, past participle, satisfied: see satiate.
 

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/ɪnˈseɪʃɪeɪt/
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