cloyment

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noun

satiety

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Meanings

nouncloyment (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountablesatiety

    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]

Origin

From cloy + -ment?

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cloyment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloyment

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“cloyment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloyment. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cloyment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloyment.

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