dephlogistication

Updated: May 27, 2025

And habit the thing which makes it possible to eat the same breakfast every day, and to windup one's watch regularly, and to earn a living. Mrs. Cox, if I remember her dissertation correctly, proposes to prevent this stodgy dephlogistication of marriage by interrupting its course that is, by separating the parties now and then, so that neither will become too familiar and commonplace to the other.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken - In Defense of Women