Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a womb, in any sense.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
womb .
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Examples
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Of course, just because 3/4ths of the planet has no gooey empty-wombed women substituting their unfulfilled maternal needs on their cats, "poor zoo animals", and chickens - doesn't make it right.
"Dogs are your friend... Not to say I don't like my chickens, but they are not my friend." Ann Althouse 2008
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Germans - when your people are going to go down in history as having wombed the greatest racists and mass murderers ever, you are pretty much white
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Germans - when your people are going to go down in history as having wombed the greatest racists and mass murderers ever, you are pretty much white
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O sprung from the seed of most valiant-wombed grand-mothers, scions of savage and dangerous nettles!
Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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I hurried off, boiling and surging with prodigious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of them was in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteen minutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him -- he so calm and sweet, I so hot and frenzied.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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Sir, this young fellows mother could; whereupon she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.
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I hurried off, boiling and surging with prodigious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of them was in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteen minutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him -- he so calm and sweet, I so hot and frenzied.
Political Economy 1890
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I hurried off, boiling and surging with prodigious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of them was in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteen minutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him -- he so calm and sweet, I so hot and frenzied.
Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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I hurried off, boiling and surging with prodigious thoughts wombed in words of such majesty that each one of them was in itself a straggling procession of syllables that might be fifteen minutes passing a given point, and once more I confronted him -- he so calm and sweet, I so hot and frenzied.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
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Gloucester in the presence of this son of his says: "The fellow's mother could, and grew round-wombed, and had a son for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed."
Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Leo Tolstoy 1869
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