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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pamper \Pam"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pampered}; p. pr & vb
n. {Pampering}.] [Cf. LG pampen, slampampen to live
luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]
1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as to
pamper the body or the appetite. ``A body . . . pampered
for corruption.'' --Dr. T. Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as to
pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pampered \Pam"pered\, a.
Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence luxuriant.
``Pampered boughs.'' --Milton. ``Pampered insolence.''
--Pope. -- {Pam"pered*ness}, n. --Bp. Hall.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pampered
adj : treated with excessive indulgence; "pampered from earliest
childhood, he believed the world had been invented for
his entertainment" [syn: {coddled}, {spoiled}]
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