Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Surfeit; repletion beyond the demands of appetite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Satiety.
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- noun obsolete
satiety
Etymologies
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cloy + -ment?
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Examples
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True, there were moments of pain -- the moments of daily parting -- but these were brief, and perhaps only prevented the cloyment of too much joy -- if such a thing be possible.
The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
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