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‖ indoles rare.|ˈɪndəʊliːz| [L. indolēs, f. indu- in, within + *ol- to grow (the stem found in abolish, adolescent, adult). Cf. OF. indole, Sp. indole.] Innate quality or character.
1673O. Walker Educ. ix. 93 He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iv. 160 Such is the indoles of the Humane Nature, where it is not strangely over⁓grown with Barbarousness. 1882Q. Rev. July 214 Every language has its own ‘indoles’. |