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Honest woman

noun

A wife who has married a man with whom she has been living for some time (especially if she is pregnant at the time).

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"Honest woman" Quotes from Famous Books

... faites de moi un honnete homme, et n'en faites jamais une honnete femme." (My God, make me an honest man, but never an honest woman). ...

— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.

... said Douglas contemptuously. "However, as it is merely a question of making your daughter an honest woman in consideration of so much cash, I have no doubt you will find plenty of poorer men who will be glad to close with you for half the money. You are much in the city now, I believe. Allow me to suggest ...

— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw

... like Loneli because she never gets rough and always is friendly, obliging and cheerful? Her grandmother really loves her very much; but she is a very honest woman and worries about the child just because she is anxious to bring her up well. I should be extremely sorry if she scolded Loneli in the first excitement about the spilled milk. The boys should have gotten the blame, and I am sure ...

— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri

... last random shot might not have hit the mark. I began to question whether my share in the proceedings was quite as harmless a one as I had thought it. It might be all in the way of the Sergeant's business to mystify an honest woman by wrapping her round in a network of lies but it was my duty to have remembered, as a good Protestant, that the father of lies is the Devil—and that mischief and the Devil are never far apart. Beginning to smell mischief in the air, I tried to take Sergeant Cuff out. He sat ...

— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins

... God! Tell that to T-S, and watch his face! Why, they hunt all the world over for some new kind of clothes for me to take off; they search all history for some war I can cause, some empire I can wreck. Me play an honest woman? The public would call it a joke, and the screen people ...

— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair

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