centaurdom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

centaur +‎ -dom

Noun[edit]

centaurdom (uncountable)

  1. The world or realm of centaurs.
    • 2020, Sean Magee, In Praise of Famous Horses:
      Labelled 'the most famous and wisest of all the centaurs' by one commentator, Chiron represented the acceptable face of centaurdom.
  2. The condition of being, or resembling, a centaur.
    • 2014, Gilbert Bonifas, Martine Monacelli, Southern Horrors: Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World, page 8:
      Byron, who mocked the institution of the haremlik in Don Juan, saw little to distinguish the horrors of Muslim treatment of women from those of the Christian moral centaurdom of marriage.

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