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单词 to make a woman of
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to make a woman of
(c) to make a woman of: to compel into a role traditionally associated with women; to bring into submission; to make weak or appear as such; spec. (among certain Native American peoples) to deprive of male status and its accompanying rights; now chiefly historical.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > make submissive
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to make a woman of1742
1742 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) IV. 579 We conquer'd You, we made Women of you.
1835 Knickerbocker Oct. 334 We have determined to punish this man: we will make a woman of him!.. A couple of our canoe-men were then called, and told to begin the ceremony.
1892 Boys' Brigade Gaz. 1 June 89/1 You must not set him to knit stockings and thus make a woman of him.
1910 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians North of Mexico II. 599/2 It was the usual custom to depose the coward from man's estate, and, in native metaphor, ‘make a woman of him’.
1990 R. Silverberg Queen of Springtime (2005) ix. 296 ‘Surely you'll forbid him [to go to war], father!’ ‘No... He said I'd be making a woman of him, if I forced him to stay home.’
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