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Definition of Sit-in
1. Noun. A form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move.
Definition of Sit-in
1. Noun. A protest in which people refuse to leave. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sit-in
Literary usage of Sit-in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1912)
"... can sit in this scene if it is in the Elizabethan or Shakespearian manner, as
the stools will be placed. If with scenery it is difficult to have seats ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Thou shalt sit in state. A howlet sits at noon. . . The Election Ballads. ...
To sit in that honoured station. S. The sons of old Kiltie. ..."
3. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"... Maledictus sit intus et exterius. in in Maledictus sit in capillis; maledictus
sit in in cerebro. Maledictus sit in vertice, in temporibus, in fronte, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Most of the courts of general jurisdiction in Paris sit in one or other of these
two buildings. The Observatory and the Mint.— The Observatory has a history ..."
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