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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

womanhead en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English wommanhede. By surface analysis, woman + -head.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable) Obsolete form of womanhood.
    alt of womanhood
    • Vnder that Porch a comely dame did rest, / Clad in faire weedes, but fowle disordered, / And garments loose, that seemd vnmeet for womanhed. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC: