Unfillable

a. Now rare. (UN-¹ 7 b.)

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a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, c. 7. Wiþ proude eghe & vnfilabil [L. insatiabili] hert.

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1382. Wyclif, Prov. xxvii. 20. Helle and perdicioun neuere ben fulfild; and the eȝen of men vnfillable.

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1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 27. Ane unfillable gredy appetite.

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c. 1475. Cath. Angl., 130/2. Vn-Fylabylle, insaciabilis.

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c. 1610. Women Saints, 178. Ouergoing that vnsatiable greedynes of euill, with vnfillable desire of goodnes.

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1890. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 2 Aug., 293. Places which had hitherto seemed unfillable by the pigmies of our later days.

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