weaker vessel

Definitions

A woman; women collectively.

dated, idiomatic, offensive

Equivalents

Examples

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.”

“Certainly, when Satan first made the Attempt⟳ upon Eve, he did not think⟳ he should have⟳ so easily conquered her. . . . Well might she be said to be the weaker Vessel, tho’ Adam himself had little enough to say⟳ for his being the stronger.”

“When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take⟳ the advice till they have⟳ persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give⟳ the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give⟳ her the whole.”

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