gluttony

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   habitual or excessive eating and drinking

   The banquet's abundance encouraged gluttony rather than enjoyment.

2. 2
   noun

   in Christian tradition, excessive consumption regarded as one of the seven deadly sins

   The sermon presented gluttony as a failure of temperance.

From Old French glotonie, based on gloton ("glutton"), ultimately related to Latin gluttire ("to swallow"). The moral sense became especially prominent through the classification of gluttony as a deadly sin.

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