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Definition of Honest woman
1. Noun. A wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time). "He made an honest woman of her"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honest Woman
Literary usage of Honest woman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1878)
"... yet had hardly crossed the threshold of conventionality. CHAPTER XI.
TEE DISHONESTY OF AX honest woman. ..."
2. The Physiology of Marriage by Honoré de Balzac (1904)
"What is an honest'woman ? This matter touches too nearly the vanity of the woman
and that of her ... I. An honest woman is necessarily a married woman. II. ..."
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