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Word Meanings - HEBREWESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An Israelitish woman.

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  • WOMANLY
    Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
  • WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
    Womanhood. Chaucer.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ISRAELITIC; ISRAELITISH
    Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • BOATWOMAN
    A woman who manages a boat.
  • BONDWOMAN
    A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. He who was of the bondwoman. Gal. iv. 23.
  • KINSWOMAN
    A female relative. Shak.

 

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