Literary notes about Regimented (AI summary)
In literature, "regimented" is often employed to evoke a sense of stringent order, discipline, and systematic control that shapes both individuals and institutions. It describes military formations that are meticulously organized—soldiers who are drilled and led under strict hierarchies, as seen in passages discussing well-trained troops ([1], [2]) and in the transformation of military units ([3], [4]). At the same time, the term extends to broader societal and cultural contexts, suggesting not just the orderly operation of a state or system but also hinting at the constraints on individual freedom and creativity ([5], [6]). Moreover, its usage can imply an almost mechanistic regularity in lives and organizations, whether referring to the rigid scheduling of daily routines ([7]) or depicting totalizing systems where every aspect of life is subsumed under meticulous control ([8]).
- These red-skins can do nothing with our people, when our people is properly regimented, well officered, and thoroughly drilled.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper - There was no mistaking the weight which a hundred thousand Ulster Volunteers, drilled and regimented, threw into Sir Edward Carson's advocacy.
— from John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Not as a bewildered bewildering mob; but as a firm regimented mass, with real captains over them, will these men march any more.
— from Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle - They raised twelve companies, which they regimented under the command of Gustavus Hamilton, whom they chose for their governor.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett - We prefer the greatest freedom for the individual to the perfectly regimented state.
— from The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915What Americans Say to Europe by Various - The new generation, urged to curiosity and rebellion by its mounting sap, is rigorously restrained, regimented, policed.
— from A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken - Again, the camp was regimented into various activity schedules to which each camper was to adhere.
— from Through These Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Lauren Ann Isaacson - On one hand, capitalism, unimpeded by other powerful institutions, created a closed slave system which regimented the totality of the slave's life.
— from The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs
