Meaning of wivish | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B1]

Examples

“[…] by her wiviſh and womaniſh ſolicitations ſo hampered Valentinian in his proceedings, […]”

“Celia felt warm and wivish and randy.”

“This uniquely Protestant assault on wivish mourning conflates excessive feminine grief which unduly laments the body’s demise with Catholic mourning, consistently stressing the continuity between women’s mourning as an imperfect version of men’s stoic sorrow and Catholic liturgical excesses as imperfect (per)versions of reformed ceremonies.”

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