viraginous

Definitions

adjective Resembling an overbearing woman; shrew-like.
adjective Resembling an Amazon; of a woman with great bravery, strength, or stature.

From virago, from Latin virāgō ("maiden warrior").

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An utterance nicely gauged to disperse the viraginous mob.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
An utterance nicely gauged to disperse the viraginous mob.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
The resolution of character, the will to achieve, and even the viraginous temper might have carried her far had she been a man some thirty years earlier in the country of her greater activities.

She Stands Accused 1935
Loud, voluble, violent, and viraginous, with a tongue sharper than a sword, and an eloquence that fairly blisters where it hits, she has, therewithal, too much honour and magnanimity and kind feeling either to use them without good cause, or to forbear using them at all hazards when she has such cause.

Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters Hudson, H N 1872
Loud, voluble, violent, and viraginous, with a tongue sharper than a sword, and an eloquence that fairly blisters where it hits, she has, therewithal, too much honour and magnanimity and kind feeling either to use them without good cause, or to forbear using them at all hazards when she has such cause.

Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850