unsatiableness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being insatiable; insatiability; insatiableness.

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  • noun The state or condition of being unsatiable.

Etymologies

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unsatiable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And the desire of slaughter, being first experimented and exercised in these, at last passed even to the laboring ox, and the sheep that clothes us, and to the poor cock that keeps the house; until by little and little, unsatiableness, being strengthened by use, men came to the slaughter of men, to bloodshed and wars.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

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