Cloy: to become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance; to cause distaste or disgust by supplying with too much of something originally pleasant; sate, satiate, surfeit.
"The Christians of old...
However employed their joy was the same;
They never were cloyed in hymning the Lamb;
Their sole recreation - to sing of His praise,
And publish salvation by Jesus' grace." -- # 206, From The Primitive Hymns, Spiritual Songs and Sacred Poems, by Benjamin Lloyd, 1841/ The Primitive Hymn Corp., 1999
Martha Henderson wrote of a service (not Sacred Harp) in which she encountered songs that "were so saccharine and so relentlessly cheerful that they were cloying." -- as quoted by Kiri Miller in A Long Time Traveling
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Aw, don't be a popinjay! Hahaha...
Say what? I think I see another "word of the day" post coming on!
You know I particularly enjoy the word: antidisestablishmentarianism
I've heard of it, but believe I would fall asleep before I got through saying it. I plugged it in dictionary.com and found the following:
"originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country"
and
"Rarely used at all now except in examples of the longest words, amongst which it has been counted since at least 1923."
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