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单词 stateswoman
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stateswomann.

Brit. /ˈsteɪtsˌwʊmən/, U.S. /ˈsteɪtsˌwʊmən/
Inflections: Plural stateswomen.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: state n., woman n.
Etymology: < the genitive of state n. + woman n., after statesman n.1
A woman who takes part in politics or public affairs; a skilled, experienced, or respected female politician. Also in extended use. Cf. statesman n.1
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [noun] > skilled or leading > woman
stateswoman1611
1611 B. Jonson Catiline ii. sig. D2 Shee's a great States-woman . View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Howell Mercurius Hibernicus 1 Spinstresses are become States-women, and every Peasan turned politician.
1690 J. Phillips Secret Hist. Reigns Charles II & James II 107 Nell Wall, an Irish Papist,..advanced..to the King's Favour, by which she became a great States-Woman.
1715 J. Addison Freeholder No. 45. ⁋9 Of this kind are the Passions of our Stateswomen, and the Reasonings of our Fox-hunters.
1775 R. Jephson Braganza Epil. sig. A4 The chief stateswoman of all the sex Grows nervous, if a fop or pimple vex.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 88 She was..a perfect stateswoman; wound the whole school round her finger.
1885 Society in London vii. 164 The Queen is a theologian as well as a stateswoman.
1912 E. Russell Maitland of Lethington i. 14 The politic Regent..was stateswoman enough to appreciate these qualities.
1966 Screen World 17 95/2 Her [sc. Eleanor Roosevelt's] later years..as a trusted and respected stateswoman.
2000 R. Jackson Global Covenant 148 The responsible statesman or stateswoman might be defined as somebody who can make the best of a bad situation.

Derivatives

ˈstateswomanship n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > political skill or statecraft
policya1500
polity1562
statecraft1642
statesmanship1764
police1766
statesmancraft1826
stateswomanship1841
1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 49 501 The Salic law..throws all the cookery and stateswomanship in these countries into the hands of the gentlemen.
1915 Proc. 24th Continental Congr. Daughters Amer. Revol. 119 Our boundless prairies with their limitless vision give the broadest character necessary to stateswomanship.
2007 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Dec. (Extra section) 17 Even the most ardent republicans will be moved by her stateswomanship.
ˈstateswomanlike adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [adjective] > characteristic of or befitting statesman > woman
stateswomanlike1829
stateswomanly1959
1829 New Monthly Mag. 26 3 We congratulate the Hon. Premier on the able and skilful, and stateswomanlike and constitutional manner in which she managed affairs.
1911 Amer. Advance 28 Oct. 1/1 May..their stateswoman-like program of agitation sink deep into the hearts of Milwaukee's patriotic citizenship.
2006 M. Halperin & J. F. Harris Way to Win §ix. 337 She projects an image that is less inflammatory and more stateswomanlike.
ˈstateswomanly adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politician > [adjective] > characteristic of or befitting statesman > woman
stateswomanlike1829
stateswomanly1959
1959 C. Pankhurst Unshackled xii. 205 The signatories of this stateswomanly letter included Viscountess Acheson, the Hon. Mrs. Guy Baring.
2005 Guardian (Nexis) 10 June (G2 section) 9 A stateswomanly address to the WI on the challenges facing ladies everywhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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