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Word: womanish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hopeless resignation it counsels, or seems to counsel. Harvard, as far as I know is the only institution of the kind, which sets up its back, and despotically proclaims "one day only as a Thanksgiving holiday." It looks to me a mere act of caprice, an old womanish attempt of the college to make itself talked about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/18/1884 | See Source »

...womanish supplication. - Bear her hence

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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