[UN-1 12.] The condition of being unsatisfied. (Freq. in 17th cent.)
1646. Ld. Digby, in Carte, Ormonde (1735), III. 476. Rather out of an unsatisfiedness of his safely … than [etc.].
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 74. Whence that unsatisfiedness, which carries the soul of man … to this height of coveting after a blessed eternity.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, II. 387. I may … rejoice in that happy State, where is … no Unsatisfiedness.
1860. Pusey, Min. Proph., 13. The soul … seeks to distract herself from her unrest and unsatisfiedness.
1886. Miss Linskill, Haven under Hill, xxii. He had seen her loneliness, her soul’s dimness and unsatisfiedness.
