insatiableness love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Insatiability; unappeasable craving or greed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The quality of being insatiable.

Etymologies

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insatiable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • I watch the spreading ripples of her moonlit eyes, hypnotized by the suede kiss of her insatiableness. the lady of the lake presses herself against the reaching shelf of a sandy mouth reabsorbing the tiny trembling pools of pleasures glistening frenzy. and in my swimming wake there is an unravelling scar upon the surface, barely visible if only for an instance metaphor for the finite ness of my life and perhaps that is why

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

  • Behold, here there begins an eternal craving and continual yearning in eternal insatiableness.

    The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage 1293-1381 1916

  • Bitterly, Marschner clenched his fist at this insatiableness.

    Menschen im Krieg. English Andreas Latzko 1909

  • "Very likely," I thought, "the repentant-knight, who warned me of the evil which has befallen me, was busy retrieving his lost honour, while I was sinking into the same sorrow with himself; and, hearing of the dangerous and mysterious being, arrived at his tree in time to save me from being dragged to its roots, and buried like carrion, to nourish him for yet deeper insatiableness."

    Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1905

  • Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life.

    Rousseau Morley, John 1905

  • For both they that gathered more, and they that gathered less, were found to have the same quantity, God in this way punishing insatiableness.

    NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

  • Alas, this deep insatiableness of sense, the dreary vacuity of soul that follows fulness of animal delight, the restless exactingness of undirected imagination, was never recognised by Rousseau distinctly enough to modify either his conduct or his theory of life.

    Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) John Morley 1880

  • These three petitions teach the insatiableness, if we may use the word, of devout desires.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • "Very likely," I thought, "the repentant-knight, who warned me of the evil which has befallen me, was busy retrieving his lost honour, while I was sinking into the same sorrow with himself; and, hearing of the dangerous and mysterious being, arrived at his tree in time to save me from being dragged to its roots, and buried like carrion, to nourish him for yet deeper insatiableness."

    Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women George MacDonald 1864

  • It is the misery of the wicked that, through the insatiableness of their own desires, they are always needy; not only their souls shall not be satisfied with the world and the flesh, but even their belly shall want; their sensual appetite is always craving.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

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