All 3 Uses of
satiate
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Absalom, Absalom!
- wore, or perhaps (I like to think this) presented formally to the man reclining in a flowered, almost feminised gown, in a sunny window in his chambers—this man handsome elegant and even catlike and too old to be where he was, too old not in years but in experience, with some tangible effluvium of knowledge, surfeit: of actions done and satiations plumbed and pleasures exhausted and even forgotten.†
Chpt 4
- ...the return to grace heralded by Heaven-placating cries of satiated abasement and flagellation,
Chpt 4 *satiated = filled to satisfaction
- should be needed again; the pageant, the scene, the act, entering upon the stage—the magnolia-faced woman a little plumper now, a woman created of by and for darkness whom the artist Beardsley might have dressed, in a soft flowing gown designed not to infer bereavement or widowhood but to dress some interlude of slumbrous and fatal insatiation, of passionate and inexorable hunger of the flesh, walking beneath a lace parasol and followed by a bright gigantic negress carrying a silk cushion and leading by the hand the little boy whom Beardsley might not only have dressed but drawn—a thin delicate child with a smooth ivory sexless face who, after his mother handed the negress the paraso†
Chpt 6insatiation = the condition of being impossible to satisfystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insatiation means not and reverses the meaning of satiation. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
Definition:
to satisfy a hunger; or fill to satisfaction (typically said of hunger for food, but can be said of anything desired--such as of knowledge or sensual pleasure)