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Definition: Satisfaction |
SatisfactionNoun1. The contentment you feel when you have done something right; "the chef tasted the sauce with great satisfaction". 2. State of being gratified; great satisfaction: "dull repetitious work gives no gratification"; "to my immense gratification he arrived on time". 3. Compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store". 4. Act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite; "the satisfaction of their demand for better services". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "satisfaction" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Satisfaction \Sat`is*fac"tion\, noun. [from Old English expression satisfaccioun, French satisfaction, from the Latin expression satisfactio, from satisfacere to satisfy. See Satisfy.]. (references) |
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Economics | Interest on the part of an individual in possessing a good. For a consumption schedule the terms satisfaction function and utility function are used indistinguishably. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is a song of The Rolling Stones (lyrics).See also Happiness, Utility.
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Synonyms: SatisfactionSynonyms: atonement (n), expiation (n), gratification (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: dissatisfaction (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Approbation | Do justice to, appreciate; honor, hold in esteem, look up to, admire; like; be in favor of, wish Godspeed; hail, hail with satisfaction. |
Atonement | Apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable, give satisfaction; come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's marrow bones. |
Amends, apology, amende honorable, satisfaction; peace offering, sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice. | |
Content | Noun: content, contentment, contentedness; complacency, satisfaction, entire satisfaction, ease, heart's ease, peace of mind; serenity; cheerfulness; ray of comfort; comfort; (well-being). |
Contention | Join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; (warfare). |
Duel, duello; single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes, passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting, digladiation; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms; (warfare). | |
Curiosity | Phrase: what's the matter? what next? consumed with curiosity; curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. "curiouser and curiouser". |
Duty | Observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior. |
Observance | Noun: observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence; obedience; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal. |
Payment | Noun: payment, defrayment; discharge; acquittance, quittance; settlement, clearance, liquidation, satisfaction, reckoning, arrangement. |
Pleasure | Noun: pleasure, gratification, enjoyment, fruition; oblectation, delectation, delection; relish, zest; gusto; (physical pleasure); satisfaction; (content); complacency. |
Reward | Indemnity, indemnification; quittance; compensation; reparation, redress, satisfaction; reckoning, acknowledgment, requital, amends, sop; atonement, retribution; consideration, return, quid pro quo. |
Satiety | Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix;Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita. |
Sufficiency | Noun: sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence; no less; quantum sufficit, Q.S. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I demand satisfaction. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) Karma's justice without the satisfaction. I don't believe in justice (The Way of the Gun; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie) Your satisfaction is guaranteed (Saint Sinner; writing credit: Clive Barker; Doris Egan) What satisfaction canst thou have tonight (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce) Well, at least that gives me some satisfaction! (Wings; writing credit: Ere Kokkonen) | |
Lyrics | I can't get no satisfaction, no satisfaction ("Satisfaction"; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) Could it be the satisfaction of bein' understood ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama) You give me so much satisfaction (THE MAIN EVENT/FIGHT; performing artist: Barbra Streisand) Keep me filled with satisfaction when we're done (Groove Is in the Heart; performing artist: Deee-Lite) There's a certain satisfaction (Erotica; performing artist: Madonna) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Satisfaction (1974) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | You Can't Get AIDS by Giving Blood. : What can you get by giving blood? Satisfaction. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Smile" by João Estêvão A. De Freitas Commentary: "Satisfaction of drive a Fiat 500." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life. |
Chuang Tse | Of the five vices, the vice of the mind is the worst, what is the vice of the mind? The vice of the mind is self satisfaction. |
Edgar Quinet | I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms. |
John Selden | In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them. |
Leigh Hunt | It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. |
Oliver Goldsmith | No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. |
Salvador Dali | There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. |
Samuel Johnson | No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. |
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John Locke | 1690 | When the governor, however intitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule; and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In place of the old wants, satisfied by the productions of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The successive installments, including the above sum, paid over by Germany in satisfaction of the above claims will be divided by the Allied and Associated Governments in proportions which have been determined upon by them in advance on a basis of general equity and of the rights of each. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He was on foot, and after looking very respectfully at her, looked with most unfeigned satisfaction at her companion |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The satisfaction of Javert shone forth in his commanding attitude |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Pride after satisfaction uplifted him like long slow waves |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She smiled in satisfaction. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | During this time they are much visited by their friends, because they cannot go abroad with their usual ease and satisfaction. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Individuals vary normally in their need for, and their satisfaction with, sleep. (references) | |
Of course, family satisfaction is only one of many outcome measures that need to be examined. (references) | ||
However, other basic benefits, such as improved sound awareness, may provide psychological satisfaction and meet safety needs. (references) | ||
Business | The aim of the law is to create ensure the satisfaction of the public demand for telecommunication services. (references) | |
Next, the Memorandum and Articles of Association should be filed with the registrar of companies who, upon satisfaction, issues the Certificate of Incorporation. (references) | ||
According to industry professionals, the best option to achieve success and customer satisfaction is for suppliers to establish their own sales and service offices in Mexico. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Czech Republic | During the year, the Jehovah's Witnesses provided clarification of their position on blood transfusions to the satisfaction of the Ministry of Culture, and as a result, they remained registered officially. (references) |
Economic History | Spain | Until recently, customer satisfaction was not a major concern in Spain. (references) |
Uae | The primary reason for this expected growth is due to the satisfaction among end-users with the quality of US building products. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | Activists have expressed some satisfaction with the new leadership, especially for its prompt investigation into the Bindunuwewu massacre. (references) |
Guinea | Similarly, if a case cannot be resolved to the satisfaction of all parties in the traditional system, it may be referred to the formal system for adjudication. (references) | |
Antigua and Barbuda | The Ombudsman makes recommendations to the Government based on investigations into citizens' complaints; however, his recommendations often are not implemented to the satisfaction of alleged victims of government abuse and injustice. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ireland | There are still issues, however, such as the decommissioning of paramilitary weapons and the establishment of an acceptable Northern Irish police force, which must be resolved to the satisfaction of all parties to the Agreement before Northern Ireland achieves full, long-term stability. (references) |
Political Rights | Seychelles | SADC observers noted "minor hitches," but stated their satisfaction with the election and in particular observed "transparency" during vote casting and counting. (references) |
Djibouti | Observers representing the Arab League, the International Organization of Francophone States (La Francophonie), and the OAU issued a joint communique that expressed satisfaction with the transparency of the election, citing only minor technical problems. (references) | |
Worker Rights | South Africa | The labor court has jurisdiction to resolve disputes that the CCMA is unable to mediate to the satisfaction of both parties. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it. |
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Don Imus | I buy all of those fights. Like my brother says, it's great satisfaction when you can see on the screen that says, you are authorized for this program. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | Contemplating the internal situation as well as the external relations of the United States, we discover equal cause for contentment and satisfaction. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | A convention has therefore been entered into which provides for a practicable demarcation of those limits to the satisfaction of both parties. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | To the topic of internal improvement, emphatically urged by him at his inauguration, I recur with peculiar satisfaction. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | So thinking, I derive the greatest satisfaction from the conviction that thus much at least has been secured upon this important and embarrassing subject. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | I bring to it a conscious desire and determination to fill it to the best of my ability to the satisfaction of the people. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The Congress has shown its satisfaction with that method by extending the budget system and tightening its controls. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But we can take satisfaction in knowing that our policies encourage and perhaps influence them. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We've rebuilt our defenses, and, of all our accomplishments, none can give us more satisfaction than knowing that our young people are again proud to wear our country's uniform. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Here today are tens of thousands of our citizens who feel the understandable satisfaction of those who have taken part in democracy and seen their hopes fulfilled. |
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| "Satisfaction" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Satisfaction" is used about 2,821 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.93% | 2,819 | 3,285 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,821 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | Cable Satisfaction International Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "satisfaction": accord and satisfaction ♦ constraint satisfaction ♦ Consumer Satisfaction ♦ for the satisfaction of my doubts ♦ give satisfaction ♦ hail with satisfaction ♦ have the satisfaction of doing smth. ♦ Job Satisfaction ♦ make satisfaction for ♦ Patient Satisfaction ♦ Personal Satisfaction ♦ satisfaction brought it back ♦ satisfaction of a claim ♦ self satisfaction. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "satisfaction": satisfaction-guaranteed, satisfaction-less. | |
Ending with "satisfaction": dis-satisfaction, ego-satisfaction, goal-satisfaction, job-satisfaction, life-satisfaction, member-satisfaction, mid-satisfaction, non-satisfaction, pseudo-satisfaction, self-satisfaction. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "satisfaction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shlyerje (discharge, expiation, remission, settlement), plotësim (consummation, fulfillment, fulfilment, gratification, obverse, recruitment, replenishment), përmbushje (completion, consummation, execution, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, indulgence, performance), kënaqësi (amenity, content, delectation, delight, enjoyment, feast, fun, gladness, gratification, jocundity, kick, pleasure, relish, treat). (various references) | |
Arabic | قناعة (assurance, certainty, content, contentedness, contentment, conviction, persuasion, temperance), تعويض عن خسارة, ترضية (appeasement, conciliation, gratification, reconciliation), سداد دين (pay-book), إكتفاء (cockiness), إرتياح (relief), إرضاء, إشباع رغبة, رضاء, رضا (content, contentment, goodwill, gratification), شبع (fill, satiation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уреждане на дълг (liquidation, quietus), удоволствие (amusement, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, joy, kick, luxury, pleasance, pleasure, relish, sport), удовлетворение (amends, content, gratification, redress, remedy), обезщетение (amends, come back, compensation, cover, damages, indemnification, indemnity, offset, recompense, recoupment, redress, reparation, solatium), задоволство (content, fulfillment, gratification), задоволяване (appeasement, indulgence). (various references) | |
Chinese | 满意 (satisfied, satisfy, satisfying). (various references) | |
Czech | spokojenost (contentment, happiness, welfare, well), satisfakce, uspokojení (complacency, gratification), ukojení. (various references) | |
Danish | tilfredsstillelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | tevredenheid (contentment). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kontento (contentment). (various references) | |
Farsi | خوشنودی , خرسندی , ارضاء , رضایت (Acquiescence, Adhesion, Concurrence, Consent), رضامندی . (various references) | |
Finnish | tyydytys (gratification). (various references) | |
French | satisfaction, contentement. (various references) | |
German | Genugtuung (gratification), Befriedigung (appeasement, assuagement, gratification, meeting, pacification, satiation, satisfying). (various references) | |
Greek | ικανοποίηση (contededment, contentment, gratification, indulgence, reparation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאור פנים (benevolent expression, bright face, happiness), שובע (plenty, repletion, satiation, satiety, surfeit), שביעות רצון (content, contentment, happiness), שביעות (gratification, repletion, satiation), שבע (contented, replete, satiated, satiety, satisfied, seven), קורת רוח (contentment, gratification), הסתפקות (contenment, frugality, sufficiency), רביון (multiplication), רצוי (acceptable, appeasement, desirable, expedient, favourable, placation, propitiation, welcome), ספיקה (discharge, flow, need, possibility, sufficiency, supply), ספוק (enough, gratification), ניחה (rest), נחת רוח (gratification, pleasure), נחת (calm, contentment, ease, gratification, mildness, peace, quiet, repose, rest, tranquillity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megelégedettség (complacence, complacency, placidity), kielégítés (appeasement, appeasing, gratification, restitution, satiation), elégtétel (gratification, recompense). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kepuasan (contentment, gratification). (various references) | |
Italian | soddisfazione (appeasement, compensation, contentment, fulfillment, fulfilment, gratification, indulgence, pacification, pleasure, redress). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 留飲 (gloating), 甘心 , 本望 (long cherished ambition), 満足 , 満足 , 会心 (congeniality), 円満 (completeness, harmony, integrity, peace, perfection, smoothness), サイン曲線 (ca et la, commercial jingle, saccharin, sack, sack dress, sacrifice, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, saddle, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sado, sadomasochism, Sahara, sanatorium, sanitary, sanitary napkin, sash, Saskatchewan, Satan, satellite, satellite computer, satellite office, satellite station, satellite studio, satin, Saturday night special, Saturn, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauna, sax, saxophone, sine curve, sinusoid, skirt with suspender, soccer, soccer coach, sound, sound box, sound business, sound effects, sound logo, sound man, soundinterface, soundtrack, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southern Cross, southpaw, success, success story, sudden death, suggest, suggestion, suspend, suspended game, suspenders, suspense, suspense drama, suspension, sustaining program, Thousand Island). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まんぞく, ほんもう (long cherished ambition), かいしん (bringing up to date, care, caution, congeniality, conversion, depth of the sea, discretion, doctor's hospital rounds, Neptune, Poseidon, precaution, progress, reform, reformation, sea god, seaquake, transgression), かんしん (admiration, alarming, careful investigation, concern, deplorable, favour, interest, reporting after careful investigation, retainer who dares to dissuade his lord, Well done!), りゅういん (gloating, sour stomach, water brash), サティスファクション , えんまん (completeness, harmony, integrity, peace, perfection, smoothness). (various references) | |
Korean | 만족 (Contentment). (various references) | |
Manx | taittin, saie (fill, replete, satiety), saasaght (contentment), rick (consistence, intelligence, news, order, settled rule, settlement, steadiness, story, tale, uniformity), glenney (act of vindication, chip, clarification, clarification honey, clarify, clean, cleaner, clearance; glass, discharge, draw, draw as fowl, dust, expurgate, freshen, grub, pay off, purge, purification, purify, rid, scale, scavenge, settlement, sink, try out, try out as metal, weed, wipe), corrym (adequate, amends, candid, equal, equitable, equivalent, even, exact, flat, flat rate of pay, flush, impartial, justice, level, par, pregnant, revenge, tally, tantamount, treatment), cooilleeney (achieve, achievement, acquit, acquittal, avenge, compensate, compensation, consummate, consummation, execute, fulfil, fulfilment, punishment, satisfy, vengeance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atisfactionsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | satisfação (accomplishment, apology, assuagement, cheer, content, contents, dribblet, enjoyment, exhilaration, fulfillment, fulfilment, glee, glut, pride, rejoicing, relish, reparation, zest). (various references) | |
Romanian | satisfacţie (amends, complacency, contentment, gratification, relish, reparation), potolire (easement, mollification, reassurance, relief, relieving, solace), plãcere (amusement, delight, enjoyment, gusto, joy, liking, mind, palate, pleasure, pleasuring, prize, unction, willingness), mulţumire (content, contentedness, contentment, easiness, gratification, gratitude, legion, recompense, relish, reward, thank, thanks), despãgubire (amends, compensation, consideration, indemnification, indemnity, recoupment, redress, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, reparation, restitution, retrieval, set off, vindictive damages), confirmare (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, affirmation, averment, chrism, confirmation, sanction), compensare (cancellation, compensation, redemption), achitare (acquittal, acquittance, clearance, defrayal, disbursement, discharge, exoneration, liquidation, quittance, redemption, remittal), îndeplinire (accomplishment, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, completion, discharge, execution, fulfilment, implementation, pursuance, realization). (various references) | |
Russian | удовлетворение (content, gratification, satisfactions). (various references) | |
Scottish | sàth (fill, insert, plenty, thrust, transfix), tlachd (pleasure), taitneas (delight, pleasure). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | satisfakcija, zadovoljstvo (complacence, content, contentment, delectation, delight, pleasure, relish, treat, zest). (various references) | |
Spanish | satisfacción (gratification, indulgence, redress, relief, reparation, requital). (various references) | |
Swedish | tillfredsställelse (gratification), belåtenhet (content, contentment), nöjaktig. (various references) | |
Turkish | tatmin (content), memnuniyet (complacence, complacency, content, contentedness, contentment, gladness, gratification, pleasure), memnun etme, kefaretin ödenmesi, hoşnutluk (content, contentedness, contentment, gratification), düello yaparak şerefini koruma, ödeme (atonement, clearance, conciliation, disbursement, discharge, inpayment, pay, payment, payoff, redemption, redress, remuneration, rendering, repayment, settlement). (various references) | |
Turkmen | razяly, kanagatlanarlyk, kanagat (patience), hoюallyk, dokluk. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виклик на дуель, задоволення (amusement, bang, content, contentment, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, kick, picnic, pleasure, relish, repletion, treat). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự vừa lòng (content, contentedness, contentment), sự toại ý (contentedness, contentment), sự thoả mãn sự trả nợ, sự làm cho thoả mãn. (various references) | |
Welsh | boddhad (pleasure). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ul. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | expletionem, expletionis. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | frasastayaêca, xshnaoma, xshnaothra. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | complacentia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Numbers Chapter 35, Verse 31 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ou lhmyesqe lutra peri yuchV para tou foneusantoV tou enocou ontoV anaireqhnai qanatw gar qanatwqhsetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non accipietis pretium ab eo qui reus est sanguinis statim et ipse morietur |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Moreouer ye shall take none amendes for the lyfe of the murtherer whiche is worthy to dye: But he shall be put to deeth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death. |
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| Language | Numbers Chapter 35, Verse 31 |
| Cebuano | Labut pa dili kamo magdawat ug lukat alang sa kinabuhi sa usa ka mamumuno, nga sad-an tungod sa kamatayon: apan siya sa pagkamatuod pagapatyon gayud. |
| Croatian | Ne smijete primati otkupnine za život ubojice koji je zaslužio smrt: on mora umrijeti. |
| Danish | I må ikke tage mod Sonebøde for en Manddraber, når han har forbrudt sit Liv; han skal lide Døden, |
| Dutch | En gij zult geen verzoening nemen voor de ziel des doodslagers, die schuldig is te sterven; want hij zal zekerlijk gedood worden. |
| Finnish | Älkää ottako lunastusmaksua sellaisen tappajan hengestä, joka on tehnyt hengenrikoksen, vaan rangaistakoon hänet kuolemalla. |
| French | Vous n`accepterez point de rançon pour la vie d`un meurtrier qui mérite la mort, car il sera puni de mort. |
| German | Und ihr sollt keine Versühnung nehmen für die Seele eines Totschlägers; denn er ist des Todes schuldig, und er soll des Todes sterben. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seorang pembunuh harus dihukum mati. Ia tidak dapat menebus hukuman itu dengan uang. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka janganlah kamu menerima uang bangun karena jiwa seorang pembunuh yang patut mati, melainkan hendaklah ia mati dibunuh juga hukumnya. |
| Italian | Non accetterete prezzo di riscatto per la vita di un omicida, reo di morte, perché dovrà essere messo a morte. |
| Maori | Kaua ano hoki e tangohia he utu mo te kaikohuru kia ora, ki te mea he hara tona e mate ai: engari kia mate rawa ia. |
| Norwegian | I skal ikke ta imot løsepenger for en manndrapers liv når han er skyldig til døden; han skal late livet. |
| Portuguese | Não aceitareis resgate pela vida de um homicida que é réu de morte; porém ele certamente será morto. |
| Rumanian | Sq nu primiyi rqscumpqrare pentru viaya unui ucigaw vinovat de moarte, ci sq fie pedepsit cu moartea. |
| Spanish | "'No aceptaréis rescate por la vida del asesino que está condenado a muerte; morirá irremisiblemente. |
| Swedish | I skolen icke taga lösen för en dråpares liv, om han är skyldig till döden, utan han skall straffas med döden. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "satisfaction": satisfactions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "satisfaction": dissatisfaction. (additional references) | |
Words containing "satisfaction": dissatisfactions. (additional references) | |
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"Satisfaction" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: satifaction, satisfac, satisfact, satisfation, Satisfaxtion, satistaction. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "satisfaction" (pronounced sa'tusfa"kshun) |
| 9 | -t u s f a" k sh u n | dissatisfaction. |
| 6 | -f a" k sh u n | faction, liquefaction. |
| 5 | -a" k sh u n | abstraction, action, attraction, contraction, diffraction, distraction, exaction, extraction, fraction, inaction, infraction, interaction, reaction, retraction, subtraction, traction, transaction. |
| 4 | -k sh u n | fiction, abduction, addiction, advection, affection, affliction, auction, benediction, circumspection, collection, complexion, compunction, concoction, conduction, confection, conjunction, connection, constriction, construction, contradiction, convection, conviction, correction, crucifixion, deconstruction, deduction, defection, depiction, dereliction, destruction, detection, diction, direction, disaffection, disconnection, disinfection, dissection, distinction, dysfunction, ejection, election, erection, eviction, extinction, flexion, friction, function, imperfection, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, injection, injunction, inspection, instruction, insurrection, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intersection, introduction, introspection, junction, jurisdiction, liposuction, malfunction, midsection, nonfiction, objection, obstruction, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, perfection, prediction, predilection, preelection, production, projection, protection, recollection, reconstruction, redirection, reduction, reelection, reflection, reinspection, reintroduction, rejection, reproduction, restriction, resurrection, sanction, section, seduction, selection, subsection, suction, transection. |
| 3 | -sh u n | facilitation, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fission, abrogation, absolution, absorption, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition |
