Word Finder - satisfaction

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A fulfilment of a need or desire.

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He enjoyed the dish with great satisfaction. He'll order it again the next time he arrives.

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The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.

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The source of such gratification.

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A reparation for an injury or loss.

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A vindication for a wrong suffered.

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The count demanded satisfaction in the form of a duel at dawn.

Anger stirred within her at the satisfaction on his face.

Her only satisfaction was that he had failed.

A smile of joy and satisfaction lit up her eager face.

The satisfaction and well-being he garnered frightened him.

There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.

If she refused him, would he find satisfaction somewhere else?

I have at least the satisfaction of seeing them through the eyes of my friends, which is a real pleasure.

He returned to Judea and governed it to the great satisfaction of the Jews.

Gabriel couldn't help the feeling of deep satisfaction as he gripped the vial in one hand.

If the quote they give you doesn't meet your satisfaction, you can always walk away and look elsewhere.

In Italy the revelation of the treaty was hailed with satisfaction.

The yard porter, his arms akimbo, stood smiling with satisfaction before the large mirror.

The poet was at that moment in the bath, and seeing the sacks, and believing that they contained the expected gold, received them with great satisfaction, but finding only silver he complained to Ayaz that he had not executed the sultan's order.

They were regarded with satisfaction by masters and men alike.

She tried not to let it affect her but suspected by his look of satisfaction that he saw how quickly her face changed colors.

L'Annee de l'Eglise, in reporting on the missions in all parts of the world, dwells continually on this with satisfaction.

This will no doubt be attended with cost; but it should be considered that the first cost is the least, and remodelling the only way of having a complete watermeadow which will continue for years to give satisfaction.

The school age is from six to fourteen, and parents can be compelled to send their children to a Voiksschule, unless, to the satisfaction of the authorities, they are receiving adequate instruction in some other recognized school or institution.

Lord Derby thereupon came into office for the second time, and Bright had the satisfaction of assisting in the passing of two measures which he had long advocated - the admission of Jews to parliament and the transfer of the government of India from the East India Company to the crown.

They had evidently both formed the same resolution; the eyes of both shone with satisfaction and a confession that besides sorrow life also has joy.

About 2000, mainly from the Gilbert Islands, were brought in at the expense of the government between 1878 and 1884; but they did not give satisfaction either as labourers or as citizens, and most of them have been returned to their homes.

He had the satisfaction of seeing a bill pass for providing Ireland with an improved system of local government, and took an active share in the debates on the various foreign and domestic questions that came before parliament during 1895-1900.

And the mystical bent of the Egyptians found satisfaction in the multiplicity of forms that their gods could assume; among the favorite epithets which the hymns apply to divinities are such as mysterious of shapes, multiple of faces.

A judgment which is not prompted by motives and inspired by interest, which has not for its aim the satisfaction of a cognitive purpose, is psychologically impossible, and it is, therefore, mistaken to construct a logic which abstracts from all these facts.

This "making of truth" is conceived as making for greater satisfaction and greater control of experience.

He professed to aim at a union of parties on the basis of the satisfaction of material interests, a policy to which the name of Sammlung was given; but his enemies accused him of constantly intriguing against the three chancellors under whom he served, and of himself attempting to secure the first place in the state.

Though soon afterwards released, it was not long before he was called before the council, and, refusing to give them satisfaction on some points, was thrown into the Tower, where he continued during the whole remainder of the reign, a period slightly over five years.

No one was admitted to mastership until he had served his apprenticeship, nor, as a rule, until he had shown that he could accomplish a piece of work to the satisfaction of the gild.

Before He left the Temple, never to return, one incident gave Him pure satisfaction.

The powers at once gave substantial proof of their satisfaction; Benevento, Ponte Corvo, Avignon and the Venaissin were restored to the Holy See.

Under the newer theory the order was Sorrow, Confession, Absolution, Satisfaction, and both satisfaction and sorrow took new meanings.

Not having received satisfaction he became a freebooter on land and sea, and mercenary soldier.

However deep, therefore, his French sympathies, he drew the same safe line as did Washington between French politics and American politics,' and handled the Genet complications to the satisfaction of even the most partisan Federalists.

It gave him great satisfaction to serve his apprenticeship to politics under the leadership of Mr. Arthur Balfour, to whom he was personally much attached.

In these forests every reasonable facility is afforded to the people concerned for the full and easy satisfaction of their needs, which are generally for small timber for building or fuel, fodder and grazing for their cattle, and edible products for themselves; and considerations of forest income are subordinated to those purposes.

The politic satisfaction of such a claim will strengthen, not impair, existing authority and power.

His family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.

When one of the latter, Fernan Sanchez, who had behaved with gross ingratitude and treason to his father, was slain by the legitimate son Pedro, the old king recorded his grim satisfaction.

He had the satisfaction of carrying out the decree which ordered that all the statues of Antony should be demolished, and thus " the divine justice reserved the completion of Antony's punishment for the house of Cicero" (Plutarch).

Even to the Kharijites he contrived to give satisfaction, as far as possible.

Some time after he had the satisfaction of seeing Wasif killed by his own troops, and succeeded, a year later, in having Bogha assassinated.

In the sphere of the concrete sciences where law obtains only ws Eiri To 7roX6 this ideal of science can clearly find only a relative satisfaction with large reserves.

On the one hand we have confrontation with fact, in which, in virtue of the rational principle which is the final cause of the phenomenal order, intelligence will find satisfaction.

If they are realized, the work of the scientist falls entirely within the field of the processes preliminary to the satisfaction of the canon.

Mary talked too much for Anne's comfort, and Anne too little for Mary's satisfaction.

Krauss records the satisfaction he felt when he observed that the additional troops given to the IV.

He proved to his own satisfaction that Canticles was apocryphal and that Baruch was not.

This, however, gave little or no satisfaction, and it was found expedient to do what Bacon had always recommended, to have a fair trial, yet not one in which the sentence must needs be damaging to the earl.

He did not perform the task to the king's satisfaction, and a few months later he was dismissed from office.

France, naturally, hailed with satisfaction the rise of a faction which was content to be her armourbearer in the north; and the golden streams which flowed from Versailles to Stockholm during the next two generations were the political life-blood of the Hat party.