10 Results found for "Wollstonecraft".

Wollstonecraftian

Wollstonecraft +‎ -ian Wollstonecraftian (comparative more Wollstonecraftian, superlative most Wollstonecraftian) Of or relating to Mary Wollstonecraft...


waiting maid

(historical) A lady's female servant. Synonym: maid-in-waiting 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction‎[1]: As she was sometimes obliged to be alone, or only...


grub up

(dated) To pull (something) up by the roots; to uproot. 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men‎[1]: These are gothic notions of...


pecuniar

Pecuniary. [15th–18th c.] c. 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Janet Todd, Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, Columbia University Press, published...


allowed

Acknowledged; admitted to be true. [from 15th c.] 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political...


calcined

Converted by calcination. (figurative) Purified, refined. 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men‎[1]: [A]n ingenious man, who is...


die-away

die-away) (now rare) That seems to die away; languishing. 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction‎[1]: ‘But, do not imagine I have always been a die-away...


insignificancy

meaninglessness. Unimportance, insignificance. 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political...


divorcement

(obsolete) Divorce; dissolution of a marriage. 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political...


black bile

melancholy Coordinate terms: yellow bile, phlegm, blood 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction‎[1]: But these various pursuits did not banish all...