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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Greek hetaera and lover of Pericles who was noted for her wisdom, wit, and beauty.

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Examples

  • Hastings, whom Congreve calls Aspasia -- "an effusion so full of enthusiasm for the moral graces, and worded with an appearance of sincerity so cordial, that we can never read it without thinking it must have come from Steele."

    A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871

  • As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and

    An Egyptian Princess — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and

    An Egyptian Princess — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and

    An Egyptian Princess — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • As an instance we need only recall Aspasia and her well-attested relation to Pericles and

    An Egyptian Princess — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Whether this will ultimately prove for the better or the worse, it would be a bold man who should dare say; there is at least one thing left to desire in it -- i. e., that the synonym of "Aspasia," which serves so often to designate in journalistic literature these

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • "There were a few wives there — the more adventurous kind, with husbands pecked almost to death — two Claudias, and a lady in a mask who insisted on being called Aspasia, but who I know very well is Crassus Orator’s cousin Licinia — you remember, I used to sleep with her occasionally?"

    The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

  • "And I should like them, if I believed they would make the Grecian women something _better_ than mere domestic slaves," said Philothea; "but such as Aspasia will never raise women out of the bondage in which they are placed by the impurity and selfishness of man.

    Philothea A Grecian Romance Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841

  • “And I should like them, if I believed they would make the Grecian women something better than mere domestic slaves,” said Philothea; “but such as Aspasia will never raise women out of the bondage in which they are placed by the impurity and selfishness of man.

    Philothea 1836

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