Definition of "womans"
womans
noun
Quotations
Whereupon our enemies, kindled with rage, and pricked forward with an ignominious indignity, leſt they ſhould be brought under the yoke of a womans government, with a strong power of choiſe youth, by force of armes invaded her kingdome, which was foreſeen by us: […]
1610, William Camden, “Romans in Britaine”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, page 48
Galen ſaith, The Roots of Spignel are available to provoke Urine and Womans Courſes, but if too much thereof be taken it cauſeth Headach: […]
1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Spignel”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], page 222, column 1
For that fair femal Troop thou ſawſt, that ſeemdOf Goddeſſes, ſo blithe, ſo ſmooth, ſo gay,Yet empty of good wherein conſiſts,Womans domeſtic honour and chief praiſe; […]
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 610–613
If a man Dreams his hair is long, like a Womans, that ſignifies cowardize and effœminacie, and that he that Dreams will be deceiv’d by a Woman.
1669, Marck de Vulson; Sieur de la Colombiere, translated by J. G, The Court of Curiositie. Wherein, by the Algebra and Lot, the Most Intricate Questions Are Resolved, and Nocturnal Dreams and Visions Explained, According to the Doctrine of the Antients. To Which Is Also Added, a Treatise of Physiognomy., London: […] J. C. for William Crooke, page 45
Wherefore the Earl of Eſſex, if he had not been befated with a ſtrong Opinion of ſucceſs in all his actions, (though built on the weakeſt foundation,) would never have referred his life and future well-being to the ſole arbitration of Chance, and the unconſtant guidance of a Womans Affection; which being only skin-deep, could not but in a Court furniſh a perſon of far leſs magnitude than a Sovereign Power with choice enough; eſpecially after his enemies, for their own ſecurity, had ſo far Indulged his, as to furniſh him with an Army paid by the Q. and choſen by himſelf.
1689 , Francis Osborn[e], “Some Traditional Memorials on the Reign of Q. Elizabeth”, in The Works of Francis Osborn, Esq; […], 9th edition, London: Printed, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, paragraph 10, page 606