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Wollstonecraft

Definition: Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft

Noun

1. English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Wollstonecraft

Synonyms: Mary Wollstonecraft (n), Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Wollstonecraft

English words defined with "Wollstonecraft": Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monsterMary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Wollstonecraft

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mary Shelley's (aka Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's) "Frankenstein": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • The elopement of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (reference)

  • Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender, and Sentimentality in the 1790s: Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Women in Culture and Society) (reference)

  • Godwin and Mary: Letters of William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft (reference)

  • Lives of the Great Romantics III: Godwin, Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Their Contemporaries (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Wollstonecraft

AuthorQuotation

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Wollstonecraft

"Wollstonecraft" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "Wollstonecraft" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)95.24%2078,262
Noun (singular)4.76%1339,140
                    Total100.00%21N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Wollstonecraft

Expressions using "Wollstonecraft": Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wollstonecraft

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mary wollstonecraft

85

mary wollstonecraft shelley

18

wollstonecraft

17

vindication on the right of woman mary wollstonecraft

6

biography mary wollstonecraft

5

mary right wollstonecraft woman

4

mary picture wollstonecraft

3

essay mary wollstonecraft

3

biography mary shelley wollstonecraft

2

1759 1797 mary wollstonecraft

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Wollstonecraft

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-l-l-n-o-o-r-s-t-t-w"

-4 letters: contraltos.

-5 letters: allotters, callowest, coleworts, collarets, collators, colorants, colorfast, colostral, conflates, contralto, corantoes, corollate, coronates, corotates, falconers, falconets, fellators, fleaworts, flowstone, followers, footraces, footwalls, forestall, frontlets, stonewall, stonewort, transfect, trawlnets, waterloos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Wollstonecraft


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 6F 6C 6C 73 74 6F 6E 65 63 72 61 66 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101111 01101100 01101100 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100001 01100110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 006C 006C 0073 0074 006F 006E 0065 0063 0072 0061 0066 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5781787885868180716984677286

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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