enwoman

English

Etymology

en- +‎ woman

Verb

enwoman (third-person singular simple present enwomans, present participle enwomaning, simple past and past participle enwomaned)

  1. (transitive) To endow with the qualities of a woman; to make womanish
    • 1592, Samuel Daniel, Delia
      Grace which doth more than Enwoman Thee
    • 2008, Baz Dreisinger, Near Black: White-To-Black Passing in American Culture‎, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 83:
      She is "one of the most enwomaned women I've seen, a brunette of eternity incomprehensibly beautiful"

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References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for enwoman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

  • Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, Vol. III, Page 1959, enwoman
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