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surfeit Noun Formal 1. an excessive amount 2. excessive eating or drinking 3. an uncomfortably full or sickened feeling caused by eating or drinking too much [French sourfait]
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surfeit noun excess, plethora, glut, satiety, overindulgence, superabundance, superfluity << OPPOSITE shortage Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty. And yet so tender was his pride, that it felt the contempt which his wife now began to express towards him; and this, added to the surfeit he had before taken of her love, created in him a degree of disgust and abhorrence, perhaps hardly to be exceeded. Would such gentlemen but consider the contemptible thoughts which the very women they are concerned with, in such cases as these, have of them, it would be a surfeit to them. |
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