quotidian

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The laws that Ginsburg overturned in this way were quotidian -- for instance, a Social Security regulation that undervalued women's work by paying less to the surviving husband of a deceased female breadwinner than to the surviving wife of a male breadwinner.

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  1. adjective Everyday; commonplace: "There's nothing quite like a real . . . train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute” (Anita Diamant).
  2. adjective Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria.

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  • A good biography gives you a sense of the day-to-day life of a person, the flavor of his or her quotidian existence, and shows you the series of tiny, often false steps by which a person becomes the thing that we remember him or her for. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • Somehow the murder seemed more quotidian, more routine, and far less threatening than the unnatural monster that had arisen from only Hades knew where to prey on Athens. —  AHMM,June2008
  • Every day, He acts in ceremony, repeated quotidian order of services: calling sun-orb to arch across skies, ocean waters to wet land's lip, again and again, the globe to dance in orbit with milky moon through heavens. —  Holy Experience
  • Many of them also include a literal drain, engraved with the Kohler name, which implies not only the hole down which our quotidian wastes disappear but also, in an abstract way, bodily orifices. —  Chronogram Articles and Blogs
  • I am drawn to stories about the quotidian - marriage, friendship, childhood, work, life, death. —  California Literary Review
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  1. Middle English cotidien, from Old French, from Latin quōtīdiānus, from quōtīdiē, each day : quot, how many, as many as; see kwo- in Indo-European roots + diē, ablative of diēs, day; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English cotidien, from Old French quotidien, cotidien, French quotidien = Provencal cotidian, cotedian = Spanish cotidiano = Portuguese Italian quotidiano, from Latin quotidianus, cottidianus, daily, from quotidie, cottidie, cotidie, daily, from quot, as many as, + dies, day: see dial.
 

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