What is "domesticity"

Usage examples of "domesticity".

Bozo has gone back to the wild, with most of her litter, and Bozo, together with one of his male pups, feeling the need for human companionship again, now that the urge for domesticity had waned, took to haunting the gates of Shondakor, and finally deigned to join us in the palace as a pet of the entire court.

Young wives were loud in praise of domesticity, While you stood lonely like a mateless bird.

So they lapsed from high romance to grim domesticity and Imad hung his sign, Wisard and Scrivener, outside their rooms, and they became to all intents and purposes a young emigrant couple of the merchant class.

There were several interesting labour-saving features, all of a startlingly practical rather than a merely gadgety character, and Gaiogi began to chip her gently about her domesticity, avoiding most adroitly any errors of taste which the nature of the occasion might have invited.

Even in this private chamber Cressida had expected to see courtiers and ladies-in-waiting: Evidently the King and Queen preferred to spend their quiet hours together in an atmosphere of pleasant domesticity.

Young loved the sound of them, which expressed to him the very spirit of rustic domesticity, of the dreamy happiness of the islands, of morning in the dewy bush.

The perfect bachelor, the chaffer at Cupid, the mocker at matrimony, the detester of domesticity!

Actually, the vaudeville-loving President would probably have enjoyed very much the highly suggestive but never absolutely libellous story of the young showgirl for whom the fifty-year-old Hearst had, if not forsaken his wife, abandoned her to the rigors of respectable domesticity while he squired, without cigarettes, alcohol or bad language, his chorus girl through the only slightly subdued night life of wartime New York.

It was the domesticity that was irritating him, the feeling of being hemmed in by rules.

To preserve an unbroken domesticity was essential to his peace of mind.