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WOMAN, n. plu. women. a compound of womb and man.

1. The female of the human race, grown to adult years.

And the rib, which the Lord god had taken from the man, made he a woman. Genesis 2 .

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.

We see every day women perish with infamy, by having been too willing to set their beauty to show.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more tan the men that wherever found, they are the same kind, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest.

2. A female attendant or servant.

WOMAN, To make pliant.

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Entry for 'Woman'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​w/woman.html.
 
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