Literary notes about pamper (AI summary)
In literature, the word pamper assumes a multifaceted role. It is often employed to denote lavish indulgence or the act of spoiling, frequently highlighting excesses and moral decay—think of depictions where overindulgence in luxury, gluttony, or self-love forewarns of societal decline [1, 2, 3, 4]. At the same time, pamper can carry a gentler, more affectionate tone, as when characters are cared for tenderly or even coddled despite their humble status [5, 6, 7]. Moreover, its usage may extend metaphorically to critique the overgratification of desires or vanity, thereby serving as a nuanced marker of both nurture and neglect depending on context [8, 9, 10].
- Rank abundance breeds, In gross and pamper'd cities, sloth, and lust, And wantonness, and gluttonous excess.
— from The Works of William Cowper His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence by William Cowper - Thou shalt toil until thy weary bones crack, to pamper to my luxurious desires!
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, August 1849 by Various - All the Seven Vices minister to self-love, pamper and feed it, assist in its growth, and tend to make it take the place of God in the heart.
— from Conscience and Sin: Daily Meditations for Lent, Including Week-days and Sundays by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould - To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined, To pamper luxury and thin mankind.
— from St. Bernard's: The Romance of a Medical Student by Edward Berdoe - He is fed by the people, and at every door at which he stops, the inmates of the house pamper him up with the best fodder they can procure.
— from Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Johann Jakob von Tschudi - As a specimen of the doctor's improvement, I recollect one most judicious alteration— " A pamper'd menial drove me from the door.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb - 'Mother, don't pamper him,' he called after her. '
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie - Pamper’d they are, grown rich and fat with ease, Whom no good Monarch long could ever please.
— from Anti-Achitophel (1682)Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Elkanah Settle - You’ll just pamper Anne’s vanity, Matthew, and she’s as vain as a peacock now.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - Why, then, should we be so proud of this body, and commit so much sin for it, pamper it with every delicacy, only to be the food of worms?
— from Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine for the Use of Sunday-School Teachers and Advanced Classes by Thomas L. Kinkead
