Unsatisfying

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 10.)

1656.  Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 234. Not resting therefore in this unsatisfying answere, we will in the next place shew [etc.].

1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., IV. xiii. Parting with unsatisfying Trifles.

1760–2.  Goldsm., Cit. W., xxxvii. In this also … enthusiastic confidence or unsatisfying doubts terminate all our inquiries.

1813.  Shelley, Q. Mab, IV. 248. Days of unsatisfying listlessness.

1837.  Lytton, Athens, I. 469. With this unsatisfying reply the messenger returned.

1879.  McCarthy, Own Times, xxviii. II. 351. The political results of the war were to many minds equally unsatisfying.

  Hence Unsatisfyingness.

1650.  Trapp, Comm. Gen. xxv. 29. The curse of unsatisfyingness that lies upon them [sc. carnal pleasures].

1883.  H. Drummond, Nat. Law in Spir. W., 363. Its vagueness to the mere intellect,… its satisfying unsatisfyingness, its vast atmosphere.