All 8 Uses of
republic
in
The House of Mirth
- To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success."†
Chpt 1.6
- There was no one, I mean, to tell me about the republic of the spirit.†
Chpt 1.6
- Whenever I see you, I find myself spelling out a letter of the sign—and yesterday—last evening at dinner—I suddenly saw a little way into your republic.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Ah, then I'm afraid we can't let you into the republic."†
Chpt 1.6 *
- "Ah, you are as bad as the other sectarians," she exclaimed; "why do you call your republic a republic?†
Chpt 1.6
- "Ah, you are as bad as the other sectarians," she exclaimed; "why do you call your republic a republic?†
Chpt 1.6
- "It is not MY republic; if it were, I should have a COUP D'ETAT and seat you on the throne."†
Chpt 1.6
- There was to be plantation music in the studio after dinner—for Mrs. Fisher, despairing of the republic, had taken up modelling, and annexed to her small crowded house a spacious apartment, which, whatever its uses in her hours of plastic inspiration, served at other times for the exercise of an indefatigable hospitality.†
Chpt 1.13
Definition:
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(republic) a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws