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Definition of Matronized
1. matronize [v] - See also: matronize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matronized
Literary usage of Matronized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1895)
"... and "Tib" living in Versailles, matronized by Tib's mother, and studying art
and history; besides the girls* adventures, which are often romantic, ..."
2. Works by Washington Irving (1897)
"... in short, without being matronized at all: and can relate a thousand pleasant
stories about Kiss- ing-bridge.* He likewise remembers the time * Amongst ..."
3. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"... saw also the arrival of a shipload of young women — spinsters carefully selected
and matronized—sent out by the Company maidens, in quest of husbands. ..."
4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"... without the possibility of any legal authority interposing to save her, to be
matronized in a journey by land and a voyage by sea, by such modest and ..."
5. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland (1885)
"... one of these devotional pic-nic excursions, vvhich was undertaken by the
princess Louisa and her ladies of honour, matronized by the duchess of Berwick. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"... ly the poetry matronized by fashion is sufficiently so-so-ish ; and in those
instances, as in Byron's, where it has been of the highest excellence, ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1798)
"... matronized by a great lady in the neighbourhood, and instructed in such a
manner as to qualify her for superintending the education of this lady's ..."
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