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    Synonyms and Definitions

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    tameness


    1. When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all things, he made it incumbent upon the next comer, if he wished to avoid the imputation of tameness and commonplace, to declare himself the slave of her will, which the next was compelled to cap by some still stronger declaration; and so expressions of devotion went on rising one above the other like biddings at an auction, and a conventional language of gallantry and theory of love came into being that in time permeated the literature of Southern Europe, and bore fruit, in one direction in the transcendental worship of Beatrice and Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva


    2. All sign of the Indians had passed away, but animal life was more frequent, and the tameness of the creatures showed that they knew nothing of the hunter


    3. Yates, indeed, exclaimed against his tameness and insipidity; and the day came at last, when Mr


    4. On the other hand, habit alone in some cases has sufficed; hardly any animal is more difficult to tame than the young of the wild rabbit; scarcely any animal is tamer than the young of the tame rabbit; but I can hardly suppose that domestic rabbits have often been selected for tameness alone; so that we must attribute at least the greater part of the inherited change from extreme wildness to extreme tameness, to habit and long-continued close confinement


    5. Chickens, instinctive tameness of


    6. There is a philosophic tameness that would be remarkable, if it were not, in all cases affecting Bonaparte, characteristic


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    Synonyms for "tameness"

    domestication tameness jejuneness jejunity vapidity vapidness

    "tameness" definitions

    the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated


    the attribute of having been domesticated