Meaning of old-wivish | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“As it is, however, if the House of Lords continue⟳ to prate the same old-wivish drivel they have⟳ been doing for the last⟳ twenty years, in this case, against French revolutions, and Prussian Agrarian Laws, we will not warrant the English nobility.”

““Tak’ a drappy mair, sir,” he whispered in a coaxing, old-wivish tone; “it’s a lang road to the kirkyard.””

“The foolish squabblings of old-wivish theologians over unimportant issues in Holy Writ, the sick frenzies of fanatical Catholics and Calvinists, the spiritual darkness of the Middle Ages and bygone centuries, none of these escape⟳ the whip of the author, who scourges them as the usurers driven from the Temple of God.”

“There is also her sadly beautiful but rambling old-wivish account of the last⟳ hours of Falstaff (H V, II, iii, 9-28).”

“SOMEBODY ELSE said that moles will leave⟳ the yard of anybody who plants castor beans. Mary thinks this suggestion is a little old-wivish. She wants more direct⟳ action. Any ideas?”

“So long as he raved through the mouth of a fabulous Hebrew and reveled in old-wivish misconstructions of the book of nature, these ruling-class academies were prepared to tolerate his assaults upon the ethos of that class.”

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