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  • Richard Walker (philosopher) (1679–1764), professor of moral philosophy. Of or relating to author Alice Walker (born 1944), who coined the term womanism....
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  • her essay "Zora Neale Hurston: A Cautionary Tale and a Partisan View," Alice Walker deems Hurston, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith "an unholy trinity."...
    574 bytes (66 words) - 22:59, 16 January 2023
  • A Study of Walker's Womanist Gospel”, in Harold Bloom, editor, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Chelsea House, →ISBN, page 120: For Walker, the battle...
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  • most clawingly) With a clawing motion; with a sharp, raking grip. 1970, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, page 100: He held one gigantic hand...
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  • for bread it often came, ( For kindness can all creatures tame) 2011, Alice Walker, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, →ISBN: How fear, self-condemnation...
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  • the women and children came out, stared and "made mirations." 1982, Alice Walker, The Color Purple‎[1], New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 244:...
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  • given name from Old English transferred back from the surname. 2000, Alice Walker, The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart, The Women's Press, →ISBN, page...
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  • has an article on: womanism Wikipedia From woman +‎ -ism. Coined by Alice Walker in 1983. womanism (countable and uncountable, plural womanisms) An extension...
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  • appropriate adult social roles and responsibilities. 1989, Alice Hall Petry, “Alice Walker: The Achievement of the Short Fiction,”, in Modern Language...
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  • Tanya A diminutive of the female given name Tatiana, from Russian. 1989, Alice Walker, The Temple of My Familiar, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 298:...
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  • initiated among African American women writers like Toni Morrison and Alice Walker whose most distinguished novels deal with previously untold stories set...
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  • heatful, superlative most heatful) (rare) Hot. 1913, Alice Henry, Stella M. Franklin, Amy Walker Field, Life and Labor - Volumes 3-4, page 71: We had...
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  • plodges) (Oxbridge slang) Contraction of porter's lodge. 1991 January 14, Alice Thomson, “Knuckling down to the new realism”, in The Times, page 26: The...
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  • Dick, Outback to Asia, page 163: As far as I was concerned the choice was Alice Springs, the center of the great Outback or a box car. There was no contest...
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  • Yandher English taecher called our lil one 'a stupid Manxie'. 2006, Mick Walker, The Manx Norton, page 91: Ken Kavanagh believes it was 'Manxie' Laing's...
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  • scanless) (African-American Vernacular, slang) Scandalous, shameful. 1982, Alice Walker, The Color Purple, San Diego, C.A. […]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers...
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  • Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Alice’s Evidence”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 178: Alice looked at the jury-box...
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  • be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil...
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  • during the smelting and forging of metal. A pressure cooker. March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎[1]...
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  • be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil...
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