Meaning of old wivish | Babel Free

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Adjective. [B2]

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“[marginal note: “1 Tim. iv.”] Let them “cast away ungodly and old wivish fables,” and “be unto them that believe an example in the word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in pureness.””

““To cast away unghostly and old wivish fables, to be unto them that believe an ensample in the word, in conversation, in love, in the spirit, in faith, in pureness; to give attendance unto reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.” 1 Timoth. iv.”

“Other objections to the hydropathic practice that I have heard are so puerile or old wivish—running away reasonless with the fragment of a fact, or the bare imagination of a fact, that I cannot find it in my heart to honour them with a serious confutation.”

“He (Mr H) represented the minority, the poor, peeled, and scattered few, who had been called narrow-minded and old wivish. (Hear, Hear). In his opinion the boot was on the other leg. They were standing up for that worship which embraced them all, for the worship of their forefathers. The worship may be bare, may be unattractive, and he believed all true religious worship was so to carnal minds, but it was a pure and holy worship. They had been called old wivish. How about the other side? Had not their wives been exceedingly busy in canvassing and bringing up people to vote, when the wives of the minority had followed out the old apostolic injunction to stay at home?”

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