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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Renaissance woman en · NOUN
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(literally) A woman who lived during the Renaissance period.
These writers all confirm what has become a cliché about the Renaissance woman as “chaste, silent and obedient” (as the title of Suzanne Hull's bibliography of books for and about Renaissance women has it).
1995, Mary Beth Rose, Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, →ISBN, page 35:
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(figuratively) A woman with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
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Renaissance man