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Word Meanings - UNWOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.

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  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • BROWNBACK
    The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
  • UNSEX
    To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman. (more info) Etym:
  • WOMANLY
    Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
  • BROWNIE
    An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
  • WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
    Womanhood. Chaucer.
  • BROWNNESS
    The quality or state of being brown. Now like I brown ; Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there. Drayton.
  • BROWNWORT
    A species of figwort or Scrophularia , and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
  • BROWNY
    Brown or, somewhat brown. "Browny locks." Shak.
  • BROWNIAN
    Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water
  • BROWN THRUSH
    A common American singing bird , allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
  • 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.
  • BROWNIST
    A follower of Robert Brown, of England, in the 16th century, who taught that every church is complete and independent in itself when organized, and consists of members meeting in one place, having full power to elect and depose its officers.
  • BROWNISH
    Somewhat brown.
  • BROWN
    1. To make brown or dusky. A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves. Barlow. 2. To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour. 3. To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels,
  • DEPRIVER
    One who, or that which, deprives.
  • 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.
  • BROWNSTONE
    A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
  • UNSEXUAL
    Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. De Quincey.
  • WOMANIZE
    To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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