单词 | peculiar domestic institution |
释义 | > as lemmaspeculiar domestic institution peculiar domestic institution n. U.S. (now historical and rare) = peculiar institution n. ΚΠ 1834 Address 4 July in Publ. Mississippi Hist. Soc. (1912) 12 65 How long will it be before the South will be compelled to yield up her peculiar domestic institutions so obnoxious to the other portion [of the Union]. 1849 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 184 A crowd..who have so heated themselves by preaching against ‘the peculiar domestic institution’, that they will not be satisfied with pitching slavery into the bottomless gulf, unless [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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