"shrewdom" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: shrew + -dom Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|shrew|dom}} shrew + -dom Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} shrewdom (uncountable)
  1. The realm or sphere of shrews (nagging, ill-tempered women). Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-shrewdom-en-noun-0RBPFIw1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -dom

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          "text": "Saint Teresa, paradoxical as such a judgment may sound, was a typical shrew, in this sense of the term. […] Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her 'faults' and 'imperfections' in the plural; her stereotyped humility and return upon herself, as covered with 'confusion' at each new manifestation of God's singular partiality for a person so unworthy, are typical of shrewdom: a paramountly feeling nature would be objectively lost in gratitude, and silent.",
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