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Insoles vs Indoles - What's the difference?

insoles | indoles |

As nouns the difference between insoles and indoles

is that insoles is while indoles is .

insoles

English

Noun

(head)

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    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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