Indoles

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈɪndəʊlz/

Plural of indole.

Noun

plural

1. Plural of indole

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈɪndəʊ̆liːz/

From Latin indolēs ("inborn quality, nature"), from indu- ("within, in") + ol- ("to grow") (an affix also found in abolish and adolescent).

Full definition of indoles

Noun

1. Natural disposition; innate character; unalterable intrinsic traits and qualities collectively.The Oxford English Dictionary (2007)
• 1673, Obadiah Walker, Of education, especially of young gentlemen, page 93:He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.
• 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The primitive origination of mankind, page 160:Such is the indoles of the Humane Nature, where it is not strangely over-grown with Barbarousness.
• 1882 July, in The Quarterly Review, page 214:Every language has its own ‘indoles’.

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