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gluttony|ˈglʌtənɪ|
Forms: 3 glutunie, 3–6 glotonie, -ye, (4 glotoni, -ani, -any, -(o)unye, -owny, -enie, -yne), 4–5 gloteny(e, 4–6 glotony, 6 glottenie, gluttenie, -eny, (Sc. glwtone), 7 gluttonie, 6– gluttony.
[a. OF. glutunie, glutonie, glo(u)tenie, etc. (also glouternie, etc.), abstract n. related to glutton, in mod.F. replaced by gloutonnerie (see gluttonry).]
The vice of excessive eating. (One of the seven deadly sins.) Also rarely an instance of this.
a1225Ancr. R. 194 Þe inre uondunge is twouold..flesliche ase of lecherie & of glutunie, & of slouhðe. Ibid. 204 Þe Suwe of ȝiuernesse, þet is, Glutunie. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 109 Þe fend bigan to tempte first Crist at pryde and glotonye. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 141 Glotonye is, þat þe bely louyth, & it wastyth bothe body & soule, & a mannys good. 1541Elyot Image Gov. 7 This monstruouse Emperour, whiche consumed daies and nightes in lechery and glotony. 1604Jas. I. Counterbl. (Arb.) 102 The cleering of his conscience from that deadly sinne of gluttonie. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 114 Their sumptuous gluttonies and gorgeous feasts. 1681Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 117, I attribute it to his gluttony, he being y⊇ greatest eater that ever I knew. 1752Hume Pol. Disc. ii. 28 The Tartars are oftener guilty of beastly gluttony, when they feast on their dead horses, than European courtiers with all their refinements of cookery. 1803Syd. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 39/2 He lives only to digest, and, while the organs of gluttony perform their office, he has not a wish beyond. 1876Humphrey Coin-Coll. Man. xxiv. 325 This monster of gluttony [Vitellius].
personified.a1310in Wright Lyric P. 49 Whil mi lif was luther ant lees, Glotonie mi glemon wes. 14..Lydg. Assemb. Gods 628 Aftyr whom rood Glotony, with hys fat berde. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 91 Than the fowll monstir Glutteny, Off wame vnsasiable and gredy, To dance he did him dress. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 21. 1634 Milton Comus 776 Swinish gluttony Ne'er looks to heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, But..Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
†b. fig. rare—1.
1704Steele Lying Lover ii. (1747) 29 No, he has a Gluttony, an Hunger for me. |