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English
Etymology
From sate + -less.
Adjective
sateless (comparative more sateless, superlative most sateless)
- (archaic) Insatiable.
- Synonyms: unsated, unsating
1700 (date written), Colley Cibber, Love Makes a Man: Or, The Fop’s Fortune. A Comedy. , London: Richard Parker , Hugh Newman , and E. Rumbal , published 1701, →OCLC, Act II, page 19:Happy he that ſips Eternally ſuch Nectar dovvn, that unconfin'd may Lave, and VVanton there in ſateleſs Draughts of ever ſpringing Beauty— […]
1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: [Samuel Richardson] for A Millar , and R Dodsley , published 1750, →OCLC:His sateless thirst of pleasure, gold, and fame […]
References
“sateless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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