All 5 Uses of
dominate
in
Babbitt
- You'll be glad to know I'm now Assistant Super at the old shop, and right on the High Road to Prosperity and Domination, and I look forward with confidence to a twelve-cylinder car, and the wife is making things hum in the best society and the kiddies getting a first-class education.†
Chpt 6domination = control or power over others
- Trouble with a lot of folks is: they're so blame material; they don't see the spiritual and mental side of American supremacy; they think that inventions like the telephone and the areoplane and wireless—no, that was a Wop invention, but anyway: they think these mechanical improvements are all that we stand for; whereas to a real thinker, he sees that spiritual and, uh, dominating movements like Efficiency, and Rotarianism, and Prohibition, and Democracy are what compose our deepest and truest wealth.†
Chpt 6dominating = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- Their life was dominated by suburban bacchanalia of alcohol, nicotine, gasoline, and kisses.†
Chpt 29 *dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- Instantly all the indignations which had been dominating him and the spiritual dramas through which he had struggled became pallid and absurd before the ancient and overwhelming realities, the standard and traditional realities, of sickness and menacing death, the long night, and the thousand steadfast implications of married life.†
Chpt 33dominating = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- A new voice, booming, authoritative, dominated the room.†
Chpt 34dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
Definitions:
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(1)
(dominate) to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, domination can refer to a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.