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Literary notes about satiated (AI summary)

Literary authors employ “satiated” to denote a state of complete fulfillment that can be both physical and metaphorical. It is used to illustrate the fullness of an appetite—whether for food, as when characters are described as having eaten their fill ([1], [2]), or for more abstract pursuits like art or knowledge ([3], [4])—and it often implies a momentary, if sometimes uneasy, closure to desire. In some passages, the word captures the weariness after relentless indulgence, as characters find themselves overwhelmed by passions or the excess of experiences ([5], [6], [7]). It is also invoked in contexts of intellectual or emotional saturation, suggesting that even the most ardent cravings may eventually be fulfilled, albeit leaving room for a lingering sense of unfulfilled yearning ([8], [9]).
  1. I then went forth from her full of joy, and proceeded to the garden, and went up to the maḳ'ad, satiated with food.
    — from The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.
  2. All were satiated and no one wanted either to drink or to have a bite.
    — from Yama [The Pit], a Novel in Three Parts by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
  3. His thirst for knowledge cannot be satiated even by flattery.
    — from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards
  4. He walked miles through the museums and silent galleries, satiated with art and glutted with masterpieces.
    — from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée
  5. At last we sank both together, in all the joys of fully satiated desire.
    — from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
  6. This shadow looked satiated and calm, as though for the moment it had had its fill of all the emotions.
    — from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  7. If thou wert yet alive, and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  8. You speak like a man who is satiated with life.
    — from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
  9. Hence the soul is never satiated with considering and looking upon the Divine Beauty.—
    — from The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of SalesThirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc. by Francis, de Sales, Saint

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