Lexicographical Neighbors of Ladyism
Literary usage of Ladyism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1883)
"byre-woman of them all, till he could announce that " Jane is almost stronger in
anti-fine-ladyism than myself"; but when a fine lady who was not his wife ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1866)
"... for an outbreak of contempt for that poet from the young radical, in the course
of which he conceives a growing indignation at Esther's fine-ladyism. ..."
3. Notable Thoughts about Women: A Literary Mosaic by Maturin Murray Ballou (1882)
"Shakespeare. 337 Love is an affair of credulity. — Ovid. 333 Charity and fine-ladyism
do not go together ; for true charity, like true ladyhood, ..."
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