indoles

What it means

1. uncountableNatural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities (collectively).

   Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

   1882 July, The Quarterly Review, page 214

   2 more examples

   He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.

   1673, Obadiah Walker, Of education, especially of young gentlemen, page 93

   Such is the indoles of the Humane Nature, where it is not strangely over-grown with Barbarousness.

   1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The primitive origination of mankind, page 160

In a sentence

He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.

1673, Obadiah Walker, Of education, especially of young gentlemen, page 93

Where it comes from

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.