cloyment

noun

cloyment

noun

Etymology From cloy + -ment?

1

Obsolete satiety

  • Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt […]c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

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