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  • 71old woman — Synonyms and related words: Lord Fauntleroy, Methuselah, Percy, antediluvian, antique, back number, beldam, better half, chicken, common law wife, concubine, conservative, cream puff, crone, dad, dame, dodo, dowager, effeminate, elder, feme, feme …

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  • 72rib — Synonyms and related words: Chateaubriand, banter, better half, bilge, blade roast, blain, bleb, blister, blob, boss, bow, breast, brisket, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, chaff, chine, chuck, chuck roast, clod,… …

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  • 73squaw — Synonyms and related words: Eve, Frau, better half, common law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, domina, donna, dowager, feme, feme covert, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, lass, married… …

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  • 74wife — Synonyms and related words: better half, bride, common law wife, concubine, consort, dowager, feme, feme covert, goodwife, goody, helpmate, helpmeet, lady, married woman, mate, matron, old lady, old woman, other half, rib, spouse, squaw, wedded… …

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  • 75woman — Synonyms and related words: Eve, Frau, adult, better half, common law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, distaff side, domina, donna, dowager, doxy, fair sex, female sex, feme, feme covert, femininity, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl …

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  • 76female — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) The female sex Nouns 1. female, womankind, womanhood, femininity, muliebrity; fair sex, weaker sex; feminist, suffragist (see choice); women s liberation or movement, feminism, NOW; mommy track. See… …

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  • 77marriage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Legal union Nouns 1. marriage, matrimony, wedlock, union; intermarriage, nuptial tie, married state, bed and board, cohabitation, POSSLQ (person of the opposite sex sharing living quarters), wedded… …

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  • 78Marriage — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Marriage >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 marriage marriage matrimony wedlock union intermarriage miscegenation the bonds of marriage vinculum matrimonii nuptial tie GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 married state married state …

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  • 79Denham Exorcisms — (1585–1586)    The EXORCISMs of six fraudulent DEMONIACs by 12 Catholic priests, the chief of whom was a Jesuit, William Weston, also known as Edmunds. Most of the exorcisms took place in the home of Sir George Peckham of Denham, Buckinghamshire …

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  • 80Goodwin Possessions — (1688)    Demonic POSSESSION of children in Boston, exorcized by the Puritan minister Cotton Mather. The possessions were blamed on a woman accused of WITCHCRAFT. Mather wrote about this case in his 1689 book Memorable Providences, which was… …

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