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Breeder of contempt
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familiarity
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "closeness of personal association, intimacy," from Old French familiarite and directly from Latin familiaritatem (nominative familiaritas ) "intimacy, friendship, close acquaintance," from familiaris "friendly, intimate" (see familiar ). Meaning ...
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Familiarity may refer to: Fame (disambiguation) Intimate relationship#Intimacy
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being extremely friendly; intimacy. 2 undue intimacy; inappropriate informality, impertinence. 3 An instance of familiar behaviour. 4 Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from ...
Usage examples of familiarity.
The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.
At court some people envied my familiarity with the emperor, the bishop of Speyer, for example, and a certain Count Ditpold, whom everyone called the Bishopess, perhaps because he had the blond hair and rosy cheeks of a maiden.
It was his wit and mirth which kept the conversation going, and the countess came in for a share of his pleasantries, while she scolded him for his familiarity.
Grateful for the familiarity of the California roll, Chia ate everything except the one with the orange sea-urchin goo on top.
I could not conceive how, with her goodness, her virtue and her intelligence, she could run the risk of exciting me by coming into my room alone, and with so much familiarity.
That of cryptology is simple, but even so a familiarity with its terms facilitates understanding.
You see familiarity breeds contempt with bullets as with other things, and though it is no easy matter to come to like them, like the King of Sweden or my Lord Cutts, it is not so very hard to become indifferent to them.
His manners were not awful, nor did they inspire one with familiarity, and I thought him likely to be a good judge of character.
Increasing familiarity with early oriental records seems more and more to confirm the probability that they all originally emanated from one source.
More than that, though, she was something familiar, a kind of Gamer Lioe knew and understood, and all of a sudden she was hungry for just that familiarity.
Ribeiro, Francisco Braga, and Teofilo Costa were cheerful companions and took him to the border and directly to the temporary camp of the Spanish guerrillero leader with a sureness that suggested a long familiarity with the rugged hills and the deep clefts of ravines that tended all to look alike to Captain Blake.
No doubt she fancied that to do to the princess what the princess had done to her would shew too much familiarity.
He inquired after the count with his usual familiarity, and ascending lightly to the second story met him at the top of the stairs.
Lucius Kennet called her Clara, and seemed to be on terms of the greatest familiarity with her.
She mentioned a relatively little known drug, ketamine, to Happy and he surprised her with his familiarity with it.