Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/
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ˈɡlʌ.tən.i
Noun
The vice of eating to excess.
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The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Noun
habitual eating to excess
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eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
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