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

  • 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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