Meaning of termagant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A brawling, boisterous, and turbulent person or thing.
   archaic
2. A fictitious deity with a violent temperament who featured in medieval mystery plays, represented as being worshipped by Muslims or (less commonly) other non-Christians.
   archaic, historical
3. A censorious, nagging, and quarrelsome woman; a scold, a shrew.
   derogatory, specifically

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Examples

“[…] I do not find⟳ hovv his E[xcellenc]y can be juſtly cenſured for favouring none but High-Church, High-flyers, Termagants, Laudiſts, Sacheverellians, Tip-top-gallon-men, Jacobites, Tantivyes, Anti-Hannoverians, Friends to Popery and the Pretender, and to Arbitrary Povver, […]”

“[T]wo raw lads from a certain great manufacturing town […] were in the act of seeking for the speediest exit from the gardens; rather choosing to resign their share⟳ of the dinner, than to abide the farther consequences that might follow⟳ from the displeasure of his Highland Termagaunt.”

“No person who had a natural interest⟳ in the Princess [Anne, Queen of Great Britain] could observe⟳ without uneasiness the strange infatuation which made her the slave of an imperious and reckless termagant [Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough].”

“Yonder is Sarah Marlborough's palace, just as it stood when that termagant occupied it.”

“'Mrs Kane has been filling us in on some background information on Owen.' The woman nodded, drumming her nicotined fingers. 'And I have⟳ been assuring her that the boys who arrive⟳ here thimbleriggers and termagants are the least of our worries. But we do not send⟳ them out that way. Do we, Brother?'”

“They [authors] would not suffer⟳ the stout'st Dame, / To swear⟳ by Hercules his Name⟳, / Make⟳ feeble Ladies, in their Works, / To fight⟳ like⟳ Termagants and Turks; […]”

“This Girl is ſo exceſſively ill-bred, and ſuch an arrant Termagant, that I cou'd as ſoon fall⟳ in love⟳ vvith a Tigreſs. She hath a handſom Face⟳, 'tis true, but in her Temper ſhe is a very Fury.”

“[T]he Widow Chupin […] poured forth a torrent of invective upon Gevrol and his agents, accusing them of persecuting her family […] At first the General tried to impose⟳ silence upon the terrible termagant; but he soon discovered that he was powerless; besides all his subordinates were laughing.”

“The name⟳ of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become⟳ proverbial for a termagant.”

“Easier divorce, equal pay⟳ for equal work⟳ as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment—these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.”

“For nations tvvaine inhabite there and dvvell / Of ſundry faith, together in that tovvne [Jerusalem], / The leſſer part on Chriſt beleeued vvell, / On Termagant the more, and on Mahovvne.”

“"Now, in faith," said Wamba, "I cannot see⟳ that the worshippers of Mahound and Termagaunt have⟳ so greatly the advantage over the people once chosen of Heaven."”

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