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Meanings of tameness in English

Portuguese
insipidez
Catalan
inconsistència

The quality of being vapid and unsophisticated.

insipidez
Portuguese
domesticação
Catalan
domesticació

The attribute of having been domesticated.

domesticação
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Examples for "domestication"
Examples for "domestication"
1
It coincides with the domestication of the dog, an epoch in hunting-life.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
2
The research has implications for the study of the history of domestication.
Wired
3
This was one of the results of his domestication in Washington Square.
Washington Square
4
An innate tameness was the key characteristic that allowed domestication to develop.
The Irish Times
5
Hence it follows that the principles of domestication are important for us.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
Usage of tameness in English
1
If in his rural designs there is sameness and tameness; if often
International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science -...
2
An innate tameness was the key characteristic that allowed domestication to develop.
The Irish Times
3
So in spite of its apparent tameness the land held a mystery.
The masque of africa: glimpses of african belief
4
The turgidity and luxuriance of art gradually passed into tameness and poverty.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
5
I have encouraged virulence by my tameness.-Yettame I will still be.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
6
In comparison with the seething Deeside hamlet, Liverpool was tameness itself.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
7
Belyaev and his team did not deliberately breed for them, only for tameness.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
8
As a precaution against tameness you should cultivate spontaneity and daring.
The Century Vocabulary Builder
9
When despair had chilled Dorothy to tameness he would go oftener.
The President: A Novel
10
Dan half-turned and replied with a tameness Rose had not expected.
A Hoosier Chronicle
11
That might well have had the desired effect on the tameness of future generations.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
12
Decreasing flight distance is a behavioural measure of what might be called increasing tameness.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
13
Wolves stayed clear of this many people, this much tameness.
Knife of dreams
14
And always the woods creatures, in startling abundance and tameness.
The Blazed Trail
15
The very tameness of the birds wheeling round my head was evidence of this.
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
16
The tameness, the half-heartedness of Western prayer and Western praise had no place here.
The Garden of Allah
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