† insaˈtiety Obs.
Also 7 insaciety.
[a. obs. F. insacieté, -satieté (Godef.), ad. L. insatietās: see in-3 and satiety.]
The condition of being insatiate; unsatisfied desire or demand.
| 1578 Florio 1st Fruites 66 The temperance and vertue of the one is commendable, the insaciety and wickednes of the other is to be condemned. a 1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. v. (1642) 63 Who knowing his great avarice, caused molten gold to be pour'd downe his throate, deriding his insaciety. a 1668 Sir W. Waller Div. Medit. (1839) 136 What an insatiety is there in all these delights. |