6 sentences with 'definition'
Example sentences and phrases with the word definition and other words derived from it.
• « The key element of the definition of "civilisation" is the idea that large numbers of people come together in a group that is too large to consist only of an extended family group. »
• « Women, by definition, could not be citizens, although in certain cases, as in the Athens of Pericles, they could assume an honourable social role as mothers of citizens. »
• « While most people - by definition, peasants - remained illiterate and largely ignorant of the world beyond their own villages, there was at least an undercurrent of genuine intellectual curiosity and rigorous scholarship spreading in the cities, monasteries and convents of the High Middle Ages. »
• « In many cases, powerful nobles could field personal armies as large as those of the king, especially since armies were almost always a combination of loyal knights (by definition members of the nobility) on horseback, supplemented by peasant levies and mercenaries. »
• « Although conservative regimes eventually retained power, the very definition of conservatism and the methods conservatives used were altered by the revolutions. »
• « A useful definition of feminism by historians Bonnie Anderson and Judith Zinsser in A History of Their Own states that feminism is the claim that women are fully human, not secondary or inferior to men, that women have been oppressed throughout history and that women must recognise their solidarity with other women in order to end that oppression and create a more just and equitable society. »