cloyment

English

Etymology

From cloy +‎ -ment?

Noun

cloyment (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) satiety
   • 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]:

     Alas, their love may be called appetite, no motion of the liver, but the palate, that suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt […]

References

• “cloyment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.