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Word Meanings - GLUTTONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

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  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • AMELIORATE
    To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
  • REVELLENT
    Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
  • DEBAUCHMENT
    The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
  • GLUTTONY
    Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
  • DEBAUCHNESS
    Debauchedness.
  • REVELATION
    1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
  • BETTERMOST
    Best. "The bettermost classes." Brougham.
  • DEBAUCHEDNESS
    The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall.
  • REVELATOR
    One who makes a revelation; a revealer.
  • ORGIES
    1. A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. As when,
  • REVELATE
    To reveal. Frith. Barnes.
  • REVELRY
    The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.
  • EXCESS
    out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
  • EXCESSIVE
    Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
  • BETTERMENT
    An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. Bouvier. (more info) 1. A making better; amendment; improvement. W. Montagu.
  • REVELMENT
    The act of reveling.
  • BETTER
    1. Advantage, superiority, or victory; -- usually with of; as, to get the better of an enemy. 2. One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural. Their betters would hardly be
  • ELEVATED
    Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel.
  • BETTERNESS
    1. The quality of being better or superior; superiority. Sir P. Sidney. 2. The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.
  • REVEL
    See REVEAL
  • DEBAUCH
    To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
  • REPURIFY
    To purify again.
  • ABETTER; ABETTOR
    One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor

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