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Indoles vs Indols - What's the difference?

indoles | indols |

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

    (-)
  • 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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    indols

    English

    Noun

    (head)