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单词 unsatiable
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unsatiableadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 1bPrevious versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈsatiable.
Now rare.
Of persons, desires, etc.: Insatiable. (Common c1540–1675.)
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > uneasy or restless desire > [adjective] > unsatisfied > insatiable
unfillinga1300
unfillablea1340
unsatiable1382
insatiablea1420
insaturablec1425
unstanchable1426
insatiate1509
unsatiate1528
unsaturable1535
unquenchable1538
unsatisfiable1539
quenchless1557
unpleasable1561
inexpleble1569
slakeless1596
abarstic1623
sateless1628
unexpliable1658
voracious1712
omnivorous1791
unslakable1820
appeaseless1837
unsatable1850
'satiable1900
(a)
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Baruch iv. 15 He brouȝte vpon hem..a folc vnsaciable.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 523 With mony we sall fyll þine vnsaciable harte.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 148 Sum wald tak all this warldis breid..Throw hairt vnsatiable.
a1540 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 342/1 Beecause you bee..vnsaciable belly Gods.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §70. 311 To them that are unsatiable in sin.
1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 21 When any unsatiable Wretch..resolves to inclose many thousand Acres of Ground.
(b)c1440 J. Shirley Cron. Dethe James Stewarde 28 All mene saye that the unsacionable [sic] covetise was the..cause of the Kynges dethe.1533 Fabyans Cronycle (new ed.) I. ccxxiiii. f. cxlix The vnsaceable [1516 vnsacrable] couetous of Ranulphe.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith Contents ii The vnsaciable desyre that Nabuchodonosor had to raigne.1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue To Rdr. p. ivv Vnsatiable greadines.1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §47 That essence, whose infinite goodnesse is able to terminate the desires of it selfe, and the unsatiable wishes of ours. View more context for this quotation1693 N. Mather in J. Owen 2 Disc. Holy Spirit Pref. sig. A3v An unsatiable Desire to do Service to Christ.1810 Monthly Mag. 29 321 His hate [is] unsatiable, where he mistrusts.(c)1528 Rede me & be nott Wrothe sig. h i They are the divels fornace, Oven infernall vnsaciable.1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 375 An unsatiable Gulf which swallows all, and gives up nothing again.
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