What is "ungratified"

Usage examples of "ungratified".

I could with less pain endure the raging in my own natural unsatisfied appetites, even hunger or thirst, than I could submit to leave ungratified the most whimsical desires of a woman on whom I so extravagantly doated, that, though I knew she had been the mistress of half my acquaintance, I firmly intended to marry her.

They had not within them the suffocating weight of a desire ungratified, the stifling sense of a power unused.

And they enact none of the melodramatics that typify ungratified yearning.

Blotted at once from existence, and the fair creation, he sinks into silence and oblivion, with all his sublime hopes disappointed, all his immense desires ungratified, and all his intellectual faculties unimproved.

He had promised himself, out of his new pathetic yearning when she had begun to improve, that never again should she know an ungratified wish, yet now he feared that she would give him no opportunity of granting a request, so apathetic had she grown.

Poor mad old maid, her innocent religiosity was heavily tinged with her ungratified desire.

Ever since she had expected, those feelings had been ungratified, cruelly crushed and thwarted.

As to whether such occurrences are evidence of disease or not, in any given case, depends upon their frequency, and as to whether they are the result of a weakness of the organs and are followed by more or less depression and debility, or are merely the overflow of a robust system, or the outburst of restrained, pent-up, and ungratified passions.