Word Meanings - CORRUPTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl.
Related words: (words related to CORRUPTRESS)
- WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - STUDIO
The working room of an artist. - STUDIOUS
1. Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar. 2. Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative. Locke. 3. Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; - WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. - WOMANHOOD
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2. - WOMANIZE
To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox. - WOMANLIKE
Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson. - WOMANLESS
Without a woman or women. - STUDIED
1. Closely examined; read with diligence and attention; made the subject of study; well considered; as, a studied lesson. 2. Well versed in any branch of learning; qualified by study; learned; as, a man well studied in geometry. I shrewdly suspect - CORRUPTRESS
A woman who corrupts. Thou studied old corruptress. Beau & Fl. - WOMAN
1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak. - STUDIER
A student. W. Irving. Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy. Tillotson. - WOMANKIND
The females of the human race; women, collectively. A sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access. Hawthorne. - WOMANLINESS
The quality or state of being womanly. There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence. Udall. - STUDIEDLY
In a studied manner. - WOMANISH
Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman; effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense. See the Note under Effeminate. " Thy tears are womanish." Shak. " Womanish entreaties." Macaulay. A voice not soft, - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - BONDSWOMAN
See BONDWOMAN - NEEDLEWOMAN
A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. - DAIRYWOMAN
A woman who attends to a dairy. - TESTUDINATE; TESTUDINATED
Resembling a tortoise shell in appearance or structure; roofed; arched; vaulted. - GENTLEWOMAN
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak. - HERDSWOMAN
A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott. - SALESWOMAN
A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - TESTUDINATA
An order of reptiles which includes the turtles and tortoises. The body is covered by a shell consisting of an upper or dorsal shell, called the carapace, and a lower or ventral shell, called the plastron, each of which consists of several plates. - OVERSTUDIOUS
Too studious. - CHARWOMAN
A woman hired for odd work or for single days. - TIRE-WOMAN
1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds. - TESTUDINARIOUS
Of or pertaining to the shell of a tortoise; resembling a tortoise shell; having the color or markings of a tortoise shell.