1. Absence of satisfaction.
1643. Digby, Observ. Relig. Med. (1644), 36. Nor have [I] any unsatisfaction in believing there are Spirits.
1675. T. Plume, Life Hacket, in Hacket, Cent. Serm., p. xliii. He thought the permission of conventicles did shew great irresolution and unsatisfaction in the truth.
1865. Mrs. Whitney, Gayworthys, xxx. An earnestness that searched through all things even to unsatisfaction and scepticism.
1880. Carpenter, in Mod. Review, I. 49. The unsatisfaction (if I may revive an obsolete word) of resting in any inherent ‘potency’ of Matter as the ultima ratio of the existing Kosmos.
† 2. Unsatisfactoriness. Obs.
1645. Bp. Hall, Remedy Discontents, 94. The mean valuation of all these earthly things, for their transitorinesse, unsatisfaction, danger.
1668. R. Steele, Husbandman’s Calling, vi. § 5. Thence he learns the unsatisfaction of the creature and that God and Heaven are the only rest of the soul.
