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strong-minded, a.|ˌstrɒŋˈmaɪndɪd|
a. Having a strong, vigorous, or determined mind.
1791Boswell Johnson an. 1778 (1904) II. 252 A certain nobleman..was one of the strongest-minded men that ever lived. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 166 That pious, learned, strong-minded, and single-hearted Jew. 1864G. A. Lawrence M. Dering II. 245 Stronger-minded women than my little Georgie have gone down before the fascination that that unhappy man seemed able to exercise.
b. Applied (chiefly in the 19th c., and with disparaging implication) to women who have or affect the qualities of mind and character regarded as distinctively masculine, or who take up an attitude of revolt against the restrictions and disabilities imposed on their sex by law and custom.
1843Dickens Mart. Chuz. (1844) iv. 42 Then there was the widow of a deceased brother.., who being almost supernaturally disagreeable, and having a dreary face and a bony figure and a masculine voice, was..what is commonly called a strong-minded woman. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. xlv, And then, what with Sholto playing with the fire, and the baby crying, you'll begin to wish for a strong-minded woman, equal to any emergency. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xvi, I don't want a strong-minded woman, who writes books and wears green spectacles. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. vi, They had not become strong-minded; they did not sit on School Boards and sigh for Female Suffrage. 1887R. N. Carey Uncle Max xvi. 129 She had evidently got it into her head that I was a strong-minded young woman.
Hence strong-ˈmindedness.
1849C. Brontë Shirley II. xii. 294 With all her strictness, with all her ‘strongmindedness’, she could gain no command over them. 1859Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 1 There is a growing taste for fastness, or, still worse, for strong-mindedness. |