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Dailiness

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dai·ly  (dl)
adj.
1. Of or occurring during the day.
2. Happening or done every day: the physician's daily rounds.
3. Computed or assessed for each day: a daily record.
4. Everyday: casual clothes only for daily use.
adv.
1. Every day: Exercise daily.
2. Once a day: Wind the clock daily.
n. pl. dai·lies
1. A newspaper published every day or every weekday.
2. dailies The first, unedited print of movie film usually viewed after a day's shooting; the rushes.
[Middle English dayly, from Old English dæglc, from dæg, day; see day.]
daili·ness, daily·ness n.
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Learning to Make Small Talk When young I ignored neighbors, stared near-sightedly into the distance, found the ordinary negligible, spared myself the trouble, remained blind to dailiness, things to be expected, consecutive, the ticking of the clock, the tides, the seasons, the hand on the door to let me pass, the greeting I neglected to answer with a smile and add a word of recognition.
Learning to Make Small Talk by White, Claire Nicolas / Confrontation
When writing about Grace after her death, the New York Times reported she "was among the earliest American writers to explore the lives of women--mostly Jewish, mostly New Yorkers--in all their dailiness.
Pen/Hemingway prize keynote address delivered at the John F. Kennedy ... by Hoffman, Alice / The Hemingway Review
Meredith Tax also writes that, "When men of power use their knowledge to fence themselves off from the dailiness of ordinary life--farming, mending, giving birth, and women--trouble is coming" (31-32).
Witches, Wives and Dragons: the evolution of the women in Ursula K. ... by Rawls, Melanie A. / Mythlore
 
 
 
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