Be ſhe as foule as was Florentius Loue, / As old as Sibell, and as curſt and ſhrow'd / As Socrates Zentippe, or a worſe: / She moues me not, or not remoues at leaſt / Affections edge in me.
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Xanthippe
//zænˈθɪpi//
Synonyms for "xanthippe" (24 found)
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Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 悍婦 /悍妇 noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
- 潑婦 /泼妇 noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
Finnish
1 entries- äkäpussi noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
French
1 entries- Xanthippe noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
German
1 entries- Xanthippe noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
Italian
1 entries- Santippe noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
Polish
1 entries- ksantypa noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
Slovak
1 entries- xantipa noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
Swedish
1 entries- xantippa noun (ill-tempered woman — see also shrew)
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RICHARD HOOKER, that rare and admirable Theologiſt, [...] married a clowniſh ſilly Woman and withal a meer Xantippe, [...]
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[page 235] He was prudent and induſtrious, and ſo good a Huſbandman, that he might have led a very eaſy and comfortable Life, had not an errant Vixen of a Wife ſoured his domeſtic Quiet. [...] [page 236] By this Xantippe (ſo was the Wife of Socrates called, ſaid Partridge) By this Xantippe he had two Sons, of which I was the younger.
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Who has not seen the cross looks and peevish temper of the teacher and parent copied, as by a mirror (though we should say without reflection), in the face and disposition of the child? [...] From an unbroken course of such treatment, who would expect any thing but an unbroken line of Nabals and Xanthippes?
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