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Definition of Spaewives
1. spaewife [n] - See also: spaewife
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spaewives
Literary usage of Spaewives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Conquest of England by John Richard Green (1884)
"The The new religion could turn the nature-deities of this primeval superstition
into devils, its spells into magic, its spaewives into witches, ..."
2. From Edinburgh to the Antarctic: An Artist's Notes and Sketches During the by William Gordon Burn-Murdoch (1894)
"... Firth instead of the Channel; but we did not know what sort of weather was
before us. Surely the money of the spaewives never sent mariners worse winds. ..."
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