insatiate
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- insatiately adverb
- insatiateness noun
- insatiety noun
Etymology
Origin of insatiate
First recorded in 1500–10, insatiate is from the Latin word insatiātus not filled. See in- 3, satiate
Vocabulary lists containing insatiate
Example Sentences
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Then on to the insatiate facts: one family in five had $3,000 to spend in 1932, the average weekly wage of factory workers was $16.21, the cost of a Chevy was $445, etc.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is it nothing to relieve the heavens of an insatiate monster, and write upon the eternal dome, glittering with stars, the grand word—Liberty?
From Ingersollia Gems of Thought from the Lectures, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, Representative of His Opinions and Beliefs by Ingersoll, Robert Green
They are not insatiate, they would perhaps be contented with a far more moderate lot.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
For, as Gemmel's hand was strong and his love passionate, so was his jealousy keen and his revenge insatiate.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
Craving for information was universal and insatiate; if only Napoleon himself would speak!
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by Sloane, William Milligan
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