Both Uses of
solidarity
in
The House of Mirth
- Even the most irresponsible pretty woman of her acquaintance had her inherited obligations, her conventional benevolences, her share in the working of the great civic machine; and all hung together in the solidarity of these traditional functions.†
Chpt 2.9
- Such a vision of the solidarity of life had never before come to Lily.†
Chpt 2.13 *
Definition:
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(solidarity) a state of agreement and support -- especially for political action