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Definition of Gluttony
1. Noun. Habitual eating to excess.
Specialized synonyms: Greediness, Hoggishness, Piggishness, Edacity, Esurience, Rapaciousness, Rapacity, Voraciousness, Voracity
Attributes: Gluttonous
2. Noun. Eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins).
Definition of Gluttony
1. n. Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
Definition of Gluttony
1. Noun. the vice of eating to excess ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gluttony
1. excessive eating [n -TONIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gluttony
Literary usage of Gluttony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are the species of gluttony distinguished according to these five conditions:
too soon ... Are the daughters of gluttony duly assigned as five: inept mirth, ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus, Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas: Or, The Moral by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Are the species of gluttony distinguished according to these five conditions : too
... Are the daughters of gluttony duly assigned as five: inept mirth, ..."
3. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"CESARIUS, (122) speaking of the detestable vices of gluttony and drunkenness,
says, that the throat is the most intemperate and seductive part of the whole ..."
4. Gesta Romanorum, Or, Entertaining Moral Stories: Invented by the Monks as a by Charles Swan (1824)
"CESARIUS, (122) speaking of the detestable vices of gluttony and drunkenness,
says, that the throat is the most intemperate and seductive part of the whole ..."
5. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1803)
"LORD MAYOR'S DAY; OR AN ODE TO gluttony. ... But gluttony, voracious fiend, Leaves
every focial joy b'ehind ; Dull, heavy, ..."
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