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roachboy · 02-01-2005, 07:39 AM

Indolence

[a. F. indolence (16th c.), or directly ad. L. indolntia freedom from pain, insensibility (Cicero), n. of quality f. in- (IN-3) + dolnt-em, pres. pple. of dolre to be pained.]

1. Insensibility or indifference to pain; want of feeling. Obs.

1603 HOLLAND Plutarch's Mor. 69 Clemencie and Mildnesse, [they say it is the meane] betweene senselesse Indolence and Crueltie. [What is the mean? What can Plutarch not say?] 1706 [see INDOLENCY 1]. 1723 Pres. State Russia I. 153 A Russian values neither Life nor Death, and undergoes capital Punishment with unparalleled Indolence. Indolence as lack of emotion, lack of empathy, the fiction of unmovedness

2. Freedom from pain; a state of rest or ease, in which neither pain nor pleasure is felt. Obs.

1656 STANLEY Hist. Philos. IV. (1701) 135/1 Indolence, which Epicurus held, they esteem not pleasure, nor want of pleasure..for Indolence is like the state of a sleeping Man is like the state of a sleeping Man is like the state of a sleeping Man. 1702 S. PARKER tr. Cicero's De Finibus ii. 56 D'you know, said I, what Hieronymus Rhodius has allotted for the Summum Bonum? I know, said Torquatus, he resolves it into Nihil dolere, Mere Indolence. 1713 BERKELEY Hylas & Phil. I. Wks. 1871 I. 269, I could rather call it an indolence. It seems to be nothing more than a privation of both pain and pleasure. 1751 EARL OF ORRERY Remarks Swift (1752) 113 That tranquility of mind, and indolence of body which he made his chief ends. A sleeping Man a Stoic Man a Dreaming Man.

b. Path. Absence of pain (in a tumour: cf. INDOLENT 1).

1758 J. S. Le Dran's Obs. Surg. (1771) 219 The Pain or Indolence of the Tumour indicates the Quality of the Contents. Emotion is a process, attendant upon intentionality, a way of designating a mode as if it were an object. There is a question of Qualities understood as predicates. In The Pain or Indolence of the Tumour indicates the Quality of the Contents the tumor is a Thing Itself, which would make it unknowable. Predicates in principle would be attached to the a determinable X: Tumor. The Predicates are not recountable. All that makes the Tumor knowable is the presence or absence of pain. Pain is not an emotion. Pain is a criterion for evaluation. Qualities attached to Pain are evaluative, not substantive.

3. The disposition to avoid trouble; love of ease; laziness, slothfulness, sluggishness.

1710 STEELE Tatler No. 132 1 Heavy honest Men, with whom I have passed many Hours with much Indolence. I fell to drinking with heavy honest men. I passed many hours speaking of Indolence. 1784 JOHNSON Let. to Langton 12 July, That voluntary debility which modern language is content to term indolence. It indicates an absence but nonetheless moves you register to register across a regress that takes you away away from description. 1816 SCOTT Fam. Lett. 14 Nov. (1894) I. xii. 376 He is one of the many many hundreds in whom indolence has strangled genius. 1844 H. H. WILSON Brit. India I. 23 Passing his days in indolence and indulgence. He is one of the many many hundreds in whom indolence has strangled genius. 1878 R. W. DALE Lect. Preach. iii. 63 Some men fail as preachers through intellectual indolence. I am one of the many many hundreds in whom indolence has strangled genius.

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roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	Indolence [a. F. indolence (16th c.), or directly ad. L. indolntia freedom from pain, insensibility (Cicero), n. of quality f. in- (IN-3) + dolnt-em, pres. pple. of dolre to be pained.] 1. Insensibility or indifference to pain; want of feeling. Obs. 1603 HOLLAND Plutarch's Mor. 69 Clemencie and Mildnesse, [they say it is the meane] betweene senselesse Indolence and Crueltie. [What is the mean? What can Plutarch not say?] 1706 [see INDOLENCY 1]. 1723 Pres. State Russia I. 153 A Russian values neither Life nor Death, and undergoes capital Punishment with unparalleled Indolence. Indolence as lack of emotion, lack of empathy, the fiction of unmovedness 2. Freedom from pain; a state of rest or ease, in which neither pain nor pleasure is felt. Obs. 1656 STANLEY Hist. Philos. IV. (1701) 135/1 Indolence, which Epicurus held, they esteem not pleasure, nor want of pleasure..for Indolence is like the state of a sleeping Man is like the state of a sleeping Man is like the state of a sleeping Man. 1702 S. PARKER tr. Cicero's De Finibus ii. 56 D'you know, said I, what Hieronymus Rhodius has allotted for the Summum Bonum? I know, said Torquatus, he resolves it into Nihil dolere, Mere Indolence. 1713 BERKELEY Hylas & Phil. I. Wks. 1871 I. 269, I could rather call it an indolence. It seems to be nothing more than a privation of both pain and pleasure. 1751 EARL OF ORRERY Remarks Swift (1752) 113 That tranquility of mind, and indolence of body which he made his chief ends. A sleeping Man a Stoic Man a Dreaming Man. b. Path. Absence of pain (in a tumour: cf. INDOLENT 1). 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Obs. Surg. (1771) 219 The Pain or Indolence of the Tumour indicates the Quality of the Contents. Emotion is a process, attendant upon intentionality, a way of designating a mode as if it were an object. There is a question of Qualities understood as predicates. In The Pain or Indolence of the Tumour indicates the Quality of the Contents the tumor is a Thing Itself, which would make it unknowable. Predicates in principle would be attached to the a determinable X: Tumor. The Predicates are not recountable. All that makes the Tumor knowable is the presence or absence of pain. Pain is not an emotion. Pain is a criterion for evaluation. Qualities attached to Pain are evaluative, not substantive. 3. The disposition to avoid trouble; love of ease; laziness, slothfulness, sluggishness. 1710 STEELE Tatler No. 132 1 Heavy honest Men, with whom I have passed many Hours with much Indolence. I fell to drinking with heavy honest men. I passed many hours speaking of Indolence. 1784 JOHNSON Let. to Langton 12 July, That voluntary debility which modern language is content to term indolence. It indicates an absence but nonetheless moves you register to register across a regress that takes you away away from description. 1816 SCOTT Fam. Lett. 14 Nov. (1894) I. xii. 376 He is one of the many many hundreds in whom indolence has strangled genius. 1844 H. H. WILSON Brit. India I. 23 Passing his days in indolence and indulgence. He is one of the many many hundreds in whom indolence has strangled genius. 1878 R. W. DALE Lect. Preach. iii. 63 Some men fail as preachers through intellectual indolence. I am one of the many many hundreds in whom indolence has strangled genius. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 02-01-2005 at 07:42 AM..