Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
indolence .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Indolence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The lack of
pain ; absence ofpain .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
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Because the indolency and enjoyment we have, sufficing for our present happiness, we desire not to venture the change; since we judge that we are happy already, being content, and that is enough.
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Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
Catholic Whiggery:The Neo-Conservative Betrayal Of Church Social Teaching 2007
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Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.
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And this hint sufficiently illustrates the choiceness of the pleasure of indolency* Again, as the prospect of a future good is a wonderful sup - port and encouragement, so is the remembrance and recapitulation of satisfactions past and gone.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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Despair is the thought of the unattainableness of any good, which works differently in men’s minds, sometimes producing uneasiness or pain, sometimes rest and indolency.
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