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"ref": "1907, “Book First”, in Rossiter Johnson, Dora Knowlton Ranous, editors, The Courtier (Il Cortegiano) (The Literature of Italy, 1265–1907), [New York, N.Y.]: The National Alumni, →OCLC, page 75:",
"text": "Then the Lord Gaspar: “I believe music,” quoth he, “together with many other vanities, is meet for women, and peradventure for some also that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies to womanish their minds and bring themselves in that sort to dread death.”",
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"ref": "Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 17",
"text": "[T]his effeminate love of a Woman, dothe ſo womaniſh a man, that, yf yow yeelde to yt, yt will not onely make yow a famous Amazon but a Launder, a Diſtaff ſpinner, or whatſoever other vyle occupacyon theyre Idle heades can Imagyn, and theyre weyke handes ꝑforme [performe]: […]",
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"text": "He [Stubbes] complains of music “being used in public assemblies and private conventicles as a directory to filthy dancing;” and that “through the sweet harmony and smooth melody thereof, it estrangeth the mind, stirreth up lust, womanisheth the mind, and ravisheth the heart.”",
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"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "womanishing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "womanished",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "womanished",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "womanish (third-person singular simple present womanishes, present participle womanishing, simple past and past participle womanished)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "girlish"
},
{
"word": "ladyish"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1907, “Book First”, in Rossiter Johnson, Dora Knowlton Ranous, editors, The Courtier (Il Cortegiano) (The Literature of Italy, 1265–1907), [New York, N.Y.]: The National Alumni, →OCLC, page 75:",
"text": "Then the Lord Gaspar: “I believe music,” quoth he, “together with many other vanities, is meet for women, and peradventure for some also that have the likeness of men, but not for them that be men indeed, who ought not with such delicacies to womanish their minds and bring themselves in that sort to dread death.”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"english": "The Old Arcadia",
"ref": "Albert Feuillerat, editor (1926), “The First Book”, in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia: Being the Original Version […] (Cambridge English Classics; The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; IV), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, page 17",
"text": "[T]his effeminate love of a Woman, dothe ſo womaniſh a man, that, yf yow yeelde to yt, yt will not onely make yow a famous Amazon but a Launder, a Diſtaff ſpinner, or whatſoever other vyle occupacyon theyre Idle heades can Imagyn, and theyre weyke handes ꝑforme [performe]: […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "[1857], W[illiam] Chappell, “Puritanism, in Its Effects upon Music and Its Accessories”, in Popular Music of the Olden Time; a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England. […], volume II, London: Cramer, Beale, & Chappell, […], page 406:",
"text": "He [Stubbes] complains of music “being used in public assemblies and private conventicles as a directory to filthy dancing;” and that “through the sweet harmony and smooth melody thereof, it estrangeth the mind, stirreth up lust, womanisheth the mind, and ravisheth the heart.”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make womanish."
],
"links": [
[
"womanish",
"#Adjective"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, obsolete) To make womanish."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "effeminate#Verb"
},
{
"word": "femalize"
},
{
"word": "femininize"
},
{
"word": "feminize"
},
{
"word": "woman#Verb"
},
{
"word": "womanize"
}
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈwʊmənɪʃ/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "womannish"
}
],
"word": "womanish"
}
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