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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
IN'DOLENCE, n. [L. indolentia; in and doleo, to be pained.]
Freedom from that which pains, or
harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc.
[Obs.]
I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough. The quality or condition of being
indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding
from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness;
indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.
Life spent in indolence, and therefore sad. Cowper. As there is a great truth wrapped up in "diligence," what a lie, on the other hand, lurks at the root of our present use of the word "indolence"! This is from "in" and "doleo," not to grieve; and indolence is thus a state in which we have no grief or pain; so that the word, as we now employ it, seems to affirm that indulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. Trench. | ||||||||