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tameness|ˈteɪmnɪs|
[f. tame a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being tame, in any sense; e.g. domesticated condition, absence of wildness; lack of spirit or courage; absence of animation or variety; commonplace quality.
1530Palsgr. 279/1 Tamenesse, priueur. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. viii. 41 b, These Partriges..become wild, forgetting their tamenes. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 152 So that they lose not their fervour in Tamenesse, nor in preposterous zeale forget their Gentlenesse. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 177 Iff our dull countrymen will not fly to theire swords, they will suffer the deserved punishment of theire tameness. 1759Johnson Idler No. 47 ⁋12 He laughs at the letters..for their tameness of expression. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) II. 310 The difference between animals in a state of nature and domestic tameness is so considerable, that [etc.]. 1781Cowper Alex. Selkirk ii, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me. 1851Beck's Florist 195 The monotony and tameness of a villa-garden. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 370 This tameness was merely the tameness with which a tiger, caught, caged, and starved, submits to the keeper who brings him food. |