ungratified

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She called to mind her brave struggle with fate, with her fellow-men, and with her own heart; her love, grafted on pain, had brought forth not gladness but ungratified longing.

From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by J?kai, M?r

No ambition is too high and, provided we will cultivate the ego, no ambition will remain ungratified.

From Seed Thoughts for Singers by Tubbs, Frank Herbert

Doubtless the secret fire of a consuming, but as yet ungratified, literary ambition also troubled his repose.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

The natural desires ungratified, the laughter suppressed, the logic brow-beaten by authority, the humor frozen by fear—of many generations—were in this child, a child destined to rend and wreck the prison's walls.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

So Mr. Gage's yearning was still ungratified, and so he told himself, and his friend, Peckover, in no measured terms as he rampaged about the more secluded quarters of the demesne.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William