insatiate
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
insatiate
- (archaic or literary) That is not satiated; insatiable.
- Antonyms: satiable, satisfiable
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedie of King Richard the Second. […] (First Quarto), London: Printed by Valentine Simmes for Androw Wise, […], published 1597, OCLC 213833262 ↗, [Act II, scene i] ↗:
- Light vanitie inſatiate cormorant, / Conſuming meanes ſoone praies vpon it selfe: [...]
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II ↗”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗, lines 5–10:
- Satan exalted ſat, by merit raiſ'd / To that bad eminence; and from deſpair / Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aſpires / Beyond thus high, inſatiate to pursue / Vain Warr with Heav'n, and by ſucceſs untaught / His proud imaginations thus diſplaid.
- 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Printed [by Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, OCLC 830979744 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=emu.010001278703;view=1up;seq=58 pages 49–50]:
- I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge.
- 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter V.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, OCLC 639975898 ↗, page 240 ↗:
- [T]hat mode of manning the fleet, a mode now fallen into a sort of abeyance but never formally renounced, it was not practicable to give up in those years. Its abrogation would have crippled the indispensable fleet, [...] a fleet the more insatiate in demand for men, because then multiplying its ships of all grades against contingencies present and to come of the convulsed Continent.
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