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gluttonie

gluttonie is the obsolete form of gluttony.

Meaning of gluttony

Noun

gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)

  1. The vice of eating to excess.
    • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

Forms of gluttonie

pluralgluttonies

Questions about gluttonie

What is gluttonie the obsolete form of?
Gluttonie is the obsolete form of gluttony.

Words near gluttonie in the dictionary

  1. glutton
  2. glutton for punishment
  3. gluttoned
  4. gluttoness
  5. gluttonesses
  6. gluttonie
  7. gluttonies
  8. gluttoning
  9. gluttonise
  10. gluttonised
  11. gluttonises

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