Indoles vs Indols - What's the difference?
indoles | indols |
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:
* 1677 , Sir Matthew Hale, The primitive origination of mankind , page 160:
* 1882 July, in The Quarterly Review , page 214:
As nouns the difference between indoles and indols
is that indoles is plural of indole while indols is plural of indol.indoles
English
Etymology 1
Plural of (indole).Noun
(head) (p)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (an affix also found in (abolish) and (adolescent)).Noun
(-)- He must be treated as the Brachmans did their children, whose indoles they disliked.
- Such is the indoles of the Humane Nature, where it is not strangely over-grown with Barbarousness.
- Every language has its own ‘indoles ’.
