| 单词 | a woman's reason |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa woman's (also the ladies') reason c. derogatory (now archaic). a woman's (also the ladies') reason: a fact stated as an explanation of itself; (more generally) an illogical argument. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > lack of reasoning, illogicality > [noun] > instance of reason1589 circularity1610 brain-squirt1654 flaw1667 alogism1679 pseudo-argument1872 illogicality1873 1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor 78 Womens reasons would seeme no reasons, especially in loue which is without reason. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. ii. 22 I haue no other but a womans reason: I thinke him so, because I thinke him so. View more context for this quotation a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 106 They were, scilicet, because they were; which is more foolish then a womans reason. 1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) at Because ‘Because’ is a Woman's Reason. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. i. 38 A pretty way of proving the point, being no better than the ladies reason, it is divisible because it is. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman v. 254 This mode of arguing, if arguing it may be called, reminds me of what is vulgarly termed a woman's reason. For women sometimes declare that they love, or believe, certain things, because they love, or believe them. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlv. 94 ‘What don't you believe?’ ‘Your conversion. Your scheme of religion.’ ‘Why?’.. ‘Because a better man than you does not believe in such.’ ‘What a woman's reason!’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 474 Bah! It is because it is. Woman's reason. Jewgreek is greekjew. < as lemmas |
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