Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to society; societarian.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Societarian.

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  • adjective societarian

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Examples

  • There is very little societary pressure on a rapist that would actually make him to willingly attend this type of thing.

    Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, The Rape/Consent Spectrum, And Restorative Justice 2006

  • I would apply this mainly to teenager girls, because I believe that in teh current societary framework they are the most disadvantaged women in raport with their male peers of similar age and social status.

    Why define rape? 2006

  • Thus was established the fourth societary condition.

    Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

  • "CO-OPERATIVE NATURES AND SOCIAL EDUCATION," an analysis of the societary mind and suggestions for developing it.

    Friction between the races : causes and cure 1930

  • This singular disposition of my mind to first identify itself with a system in order to better understand it, and then to reflect upon it in order to test its legitimacy, is the very thing which disgusted me with Fourier, and ruined in my esteem the societary school.

    What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890

  • Its intended changes are to be wrought in the intimate texture of all societary organizations, without violence or any form of antagonism.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

  • Fourier, and ruined in my esteem the societary school.

    What is Property? 1837

  • Might he not have said something of the pecuniary and societary successes that had so closely followed the appearance of the novel to whose publication he had attributed so great an influence?

    Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition 1836

  • The reward of literary service, and the estimation in which literary men are held, both grow with growth in that power of combination which results from diversification of employments; from bringing consumers and producers close together; and from thus stimulating the activity of the societary circulation.

    Letters on International Copyright; Second Edition 1836

  • From these unequal and discordant relations, and the feeble and restricted influence of the mother, spring generations of children who are born constitutionally defective in the feminine qualities of gentleness, purity, and love; and the utter rejection of that element in the societary arrangements under which they grow to manhood, aggravates their inherited tendencies, until whole nations of warriors founding governments of blood have filled the earth, and war and rapine have not only become the occupation and the pastime of man, but have grown into his religion and become incarnate in the Deities he worships.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863

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