Old-wifish
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Old-wifish is an adjective meaning Resembling or characteristic of an old wife.
Meaning
Resembling or characteristic of an old wife.
Example Sentences
“Deprecate the irreligious and oldwifish mythologies, and practise yourself in piety,” […]
As for vngooſtly and olde wyueſh fables, caſt them awaye, but exercyſe thy ſelfe vnto godlynes.
The Somerville History I have seen, and must seriously beseech you to publish it, as it is replete with entertainment,—full of lies, certes,—but the gossip of an old-wifish lord, which is excellent.
Among the Apocryphal Gospels’ fables of what befell during the Silent Years, there are some that are concerned with the school-days of Jesus—mostly silly and sometimes blasphemous stories of the sort which St. Paul brands as ‘profane and old-wifish myths’ (1 Ti 4⁷).
Word Forms
- old wivish
- old-wivish
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