Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
woman .
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- noun pl. of
woman .
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- noun Plural form of
woman .
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Examples
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And it's not any better if the writers are *women*, while perhaps not shocking indicates that there are many women writers and men who have not examined their assumptions about the way female characters should be, and why they're writing them that way.
Strong Women Characters thelauderdale 2010
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If divorce nurtured such traits and often required women to use them in the workforce, then divorce was fully compatible with the larger goal of economic independence for women .
'Divorce Culture' Coontz, Stephanie 1998
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The first conclusion, then, one that is forced upon the thoughtful mind by the fact of this difference in the sex possibilities of women and other female animals, is, as already stated, but which is here repeated for emphasis, that coitus _can_ be engaged in _by women_ when
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I have appealed to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as _Christian women_ >.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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They were the progenitors of thousands of fine men and women in all parts of America today who honor the _women_ as well as the _men_ of the old Plymouth
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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For if one considers his own impression after having seen an assemblage of women dressed in Quaker costume, he will find it to be, not of a confusion of twinkling finery, but of many fair, sweet _faces_, of charming, nice-looking _women_, and not of articles of dress.
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I have appealed to your sympathies as women, to your sense of duty as _Christian women_.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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In other words, Jewish women were sold as _white women_ were in the first settlement of Virginia -- as _wives_, _not_ as slaves.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Few women are so happy as to meet with _five good husbands_, and therefore I should be glad to devote the remaining part of my life to the good of my country and family, in a more public and active station than that of a _wife_, according to your late scheme for _a septennial administration of women_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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In other words, Jewish women were sold as _white women_ were in the first settlement of Virginia -- as _wives, not_ as slaves.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
oroboros commented on the word women
"Women" is the only word in English where "o" represents the "i" sound.
December 27, 2006
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word women
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
-Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
(Disclaimer: PossibleUnderscore does not necessarily agree with opinions of George Bernard Shaw.)
August 3, 2009
rolig commented on the word women
PU, there is no real reason to think this is Shaw's opinion. It's what his character Henry Higgins says, and I don't think the misogynistic Higgins is really Shaw's mouthpiece here. One should be careful when quoting from plays.
Of course, this quote was the basis of Higgins's song "I'm an Ordinary Man" in the Lerner and Lowe musical My Fair Lady:
Let a woman in your life and your serenity is through,
she'll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome,
and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you...
Let a woman in your life, and you're up against a wall,
make a plan and you will find,
that she has something else in mind,
and so rather than do either you do something else that neither likes at all…
August 3, 2009
madmouth commented on the word women
Shaw is definitely not a misogynist; Higgins is the butt of Pygmalion.
I wouldn't say, all the same, that a statement like "Women upset everything" is indicative of misogyny.
August 4, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word women
Yeah, I probably should have said with what he writes. Thanks for pointing that out. :-)
August 4, 2009