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Indolency

In′do-len-cy

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Noun.
Indolence.
[Obs.]
Holland.

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indolency

indolency

English

Noun

indolency (plural indolencies)

  1. (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.