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domesticity|dəʊmɛˈstɪsɪtɪ|
[f. domestic a. + -ity: cf. F. domesticité (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. a. The quality or state of being domestic, domestic character; home or family life; devotion to home; homeliness.
1721Bailey, Domesticity, the being a servant. 1726Ayliffe Parergon (L.), Great familiarity is included under the notion of friendship and domesticity, as living together in the same house, and the like. 1827Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 49 You would infer..that there is more domesticity..in Holland, than in any other country. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. iii. 74 A masculine woman, with no talent for domesticity.
b. The quality of being a domestic animal.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xxxvi. 314 Domesticity eliminates the tendency. 1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 37 The most marked sign of domesticity in our European goats.
2. pl. Domestic affairs or arrangements.
1824C. J. Mathews in Four C. Eng. Lett. 550 Since you are determined to be made acquainted with our domesticities. 1843J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 165 That shelters itself amid the domesticities of life.
3. A domestic or homely expression or idiom. rare.
1899Wilde Importance of being Earnest i. 28 Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! |