Cloyment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    satiety obsolete, uncountable

    "Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt […]"

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"Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt […]"

Etymology

From cloy + -ment?

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