All 6 Uses of
domestic
in
Arrowsmith
- No one was so domestic as these birds of passage.†
Chpt 10 *
- Whether or not he loved her, whether he was capable of ordinary domestic affection, could not be discovered.†
Chpt 12
- Martin survived it sufficiently to sound domestic when he announced at the supper-table: "We had a bully drive.†
Chpt 14
- —by the way, wonder what's ever become of Clif; haven't heard from him for a couple o' years— when it comes to this 'overpowering Christian Domesticity'— Oh, let's hunt for a blind-pig and sit around with the nice restful burglars.†
Chpt 19 *
- There could be, to a respectable person, no question as to their merits: Kellett the just and earnest man of domesticity whose rise was an inspiration to youth; George William the gambler, the lusher, the smuggler, the liar, the seller of shoddy cottons, a person whose only excellence was his cheap good nature.†
Chpt 31
- The Special Board met in Parliament House, all of them trying to look not like their simple and domestic selves but like judges.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(domestic as in: domestic happiness) relating to a home or family
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(domestic as in: the domestic market) relating to a home country
or (much more rarely,): relating to a geographic area that is smaller than a country