Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
apedom .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being an ape.
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- noun
Apedom .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is disappointing that Dr. Rama chandran is serially unfaithful to the initial vision he presents, of humans as a species that "transcends apehood to the same degree by which life transcends mundane chemistry and physics."
The Mind in the Mirror Raymond Tallis 2011
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Dr. Ramachandran's way with brain research is particularly evident in his extended discussion of mirror neurons, the current darlings of pop neuroscience, which he describes as "the key players in our transcendence of apehood."
The Mind in the Mirror Raymond Tallis 2011
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Till it leave behind its apehood, and its daily load of fears,
City and Village 2010
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Almost five years separate me from my apehood—a period that is perhaps short if measured on the calendar, but infinitely long when one gallops through it, as I have done, accompanied for stretches by excellent people, advice, applause, and orchestral music, yet basically alone, for in order to remain in the picture, anyone accompanying me kept far away from the barrier.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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Frankly, much as I like to use images for these things, your apehood, gentlemen, insofar as you have anything of that nature behind you, cannot be more remote from you than mine from me.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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Until we evolved beyond apehood we were mostly the same way, and in some places and ways we still are.
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Natural selection raised man from apehood to his present estate.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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They were a morose and peevish band at best, though here and there were those among them in whom germinated the primal seeds of humanity -- reversions to type, these, doubtless; reversions to the ancient progenitor who took the first step out of apehood toward humanness, when he walked more often upon his hind feet and discovered other things for idle hands to do.
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Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood.
Tarzan of the Apes 1914
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Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood.
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
hernesheir commented on the word apehood
Railway telegraphers' shorthand for "Will prepare the application". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 20, 2013