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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being pampered.
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Examples
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No crosses, no vexations, but what we gave ourselves from the pamperedness, as I may call it, of our own wills.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing, and a pamperedness of iniquity.
The Confessions 1999
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Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing, and a pamperedness of iniquity.
The Second Book 1909
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No crosses, no vexations, but what we gave ourselves from the pamperedness, as I may call it, of our own wills.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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