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tameness

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Word definitions for tameness in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tameness \Tame"ness\, n. The quality or state of being tame.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: jejunity , jejuneness , vapidity , vapidness ] the attribute of having been domesticated [syn: domestication ] [ant: wildness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or quality of being tame. 2 (context countable rare English) The result or product of being tame.

Usage examples of tameness.

It would have been strange, indeed, if Theodosius had purchased, by the loss of honor, a secure and solid tranquillity, or if his tameness had not invited the repetition of injuries.

Elagabalus lavished away the treasures of his people in the wildest extravagance, his own voice and that of his flatterers applauded a spirit of magnificence unknown to the tameness of his predecessors.

It reminded her of the growl of a fierce lexa beast when it resented the tameness that befell it when offered a balum fruit.

The choice of his ministers was in many instances justly censured, and the dissastified dissatisfied people, with their usual candor, accused at once his indolent tameness and his excessive severity.

This tameness of the birds, especially of the waterfowl, is strongly contrasted with the habits of the same species in Tierra del Fuego, where for ages past they have been persecuted by the wild inhabitants.

The spectators, disappointed at the tameness of the contest, blew off steam by shouting to their champion to get to work, and jeering at the Sub's wary and seemingly faint-hearted tactics.