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• [...] Make feeble ladies, in their works, / To fight like termagants and Turks; [...]
• The name of Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates, has become proverbial for a termagant.
• Easier divorce, equal pay for equal work as between men and women, no discrimination between the sexes in employment – these were her causes, and in promoting them she was no comic-strip feminist termagant, but reasonable, logical, and untiring.
• This terrible termagant, this Nero, this Pharaoh.
• The slave of an imperious and reckless termagant.
• These bishops with their termagant wives throw the book at us and say believe because I demand belief and by God I will burn or hang and quarter you if you do not.