KJV Dictionary - woman
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WOMAN
WOMAN, n. plu. women. a compound of womb and man.
1. The female of the human race, grown to adult years.
And the rib, which the Lord god had taken from the man, made he a woman. Genesis 2.
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
We see every day women perish with infamy, by having been too willing to set their beauty to show.
I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more tan the men; that wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.
2. A female attendant or servant.
WOMAN, v.t To make pliant.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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