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Indolency
In′do-len-cy
,Noun.
Indolence.
[Obs.]
Holland.
Definition 2024
indolency
indolency
English
Noun
indolency (plural indolencies)
- (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- the sect of Philosophie, that hath most preferred sensualitie, hath also placed the same but to indolencie or unfeeling of paine.
- 1689, John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration:
- 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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: