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domestication
  1. The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
  2. The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Without any conscious program at all the beginning of plant domestication started a melioristic process.”
      “Settlements began to encourage the growth of plants such as barley and lentils and the domestication of pigs, sheep and goats.”
      “If the domestication is complete, the humanity of the native is obliterated, at least, until he assimilates the dominant culture.”
domestic
domestical
  1. (archaic) A domestic; a household servant; a member of a household.
domesticate
  1. An animal or plant that has been domesticated.
domesticant
  1. An animal that is domesticated.
domesticability
  1. The ability to be domesticated.
domesticity
  1. affection for the home and its material comforts
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Many of her paintings represent scenes of charming bourgeois domesticity featuring members of her family, especially her daughter.”
      “After a long day at work, Sarah prefers to unwind and relax rather than engaging in domesticity.”
      “After years of traveling and living out of a suitcase, she finally embraced the domesticity she had longed for and enjoyed the simple comforts of home.”
domesticator
  1. One who domesticates.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Each domesticator has claimed to really know the Amish and to provide an insider's account of the Amish, based on real or fictive kinship.”
domesticabilities
  1. plural of domesticability
domestications
  1. plural of domestication
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Dr Bradley was responsible for testing the theory that modern cattle are the result of not one but two separate domestications.”
      “Probably soon after the earliest domestications of cereal grains, humans began to recognize degrees of excellence among the plants in their fields and saved seed from the best for planting new crops.”
      “I would not be very much surprised if there are hundreds of independent evolutionary domestications.”
domesticators
  1. plural of domesticator
  2. Examples:
    1. “They were much less effective as animal domesticators, possibly because they had fewer domesticable animals to work with.”
      “Early domesticators would use every part, including their bones, teeth and hooves.”
      “Sami, the original domesticators of reindeer, were brought in to teach the Canadian Inuit reindeer husbandry.”
domesticants
  1. plural of domesticant
domesticates
  1. plural of domesticate
  2. Examples:
    1. “The former is an agreeable and clever portrait that domesticates and sweetens its subject's subversiveness.”
      “The longest established invertebrate domesticates are the honey bee and the silkworm.”
      “If the major language domesticates life, then a minor mode of languaging affirms and enhances life, and sees dignity in life's unruliness.”
domesticities
  1. plural of domesticity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is not only for the domesticities of St. Petersburgthat our attention is solicited.”
      “For an author who, by his own admission, was not satisfied with modest sales, literary prizes, good reviews and the domesticities of marriage, this explosion of fame was the Faustian fulfilment of a dream.”
      “Why not be revenged on society by shaping his future domesticities loosely, instead of kissing the pedagogic rod of convention in this ensnaring manner?”
domestics
  1. plural of domestic
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She claimed to be resting her mind and collecting material firsthand for a piece she intended to write about domestics.”
      “They're a bit more flavorful than domestics, but not as robust as most craft brews.”
      “Many of the wild domestic dogs in Australia are mixed European domestics and so-called pig dogs, which are bred to hunt wild boars.”
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