Citations:woman-child

Noun: "alternate spelling of woman child"

 * 1655 — Henry Cornelius Agrippa, The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (trans. Robert Turner), page 163:
 * If you would know whether a woman shall bring forth a man-child, or a woman-child; behold the Ascendent and his Lord, which if he be masculine, and in a masculine Signe, or in a masculine quarter of the Figure, it is a male-childe; but if the Ascendent be feminine, and in a feminine quarter of the Circle, it will be a woman-child; and so you shall consider also of the Moon.
 * 1885 — Mrs. Robert O'Reilly, "Joshua Long's Superstition", in Kirke's Mill and Other Stories, Ballantyne Press (1885), page 180:
 * "I'm sure, lass, we like very well to have you. If there's one thing I've missed all my days, and coveted, which for that matter it's a sin and a breaking of the commandment, though there ain't no mention of a daughter in the wording of it, as there be of a wife, — if there be one thing I've coveted, it be a woman-child of my own; a girl's a wonderful comfort when the boats be out, let alone a sister for the lads."
 * 1889 — Gertrude Atherton, Hermia Suydam, The Current Literature Publishing Co (1889), page 196:
 * How many women have sat in their darkening rooms at that hour with their brows against the glass and watched their memories rise and sing a dirge! Even a child — if it be a woman-child — is oppressed in that shadow-haunted land between day and night, for the sadness of the future is on her.
 * 1894 — William Sharp, Vistas, the Gypsy Christ, and Other Prose Imaginings, Duffield & Company (1912), page 68:
 * And if the child be a woman-child, O Lord, may she be a lamp of the light in dark places, a godly presence among the evil.
 * 1902 — Jack London, The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke, Isbister & Co. Ltd. (1902), page 6:
 * "So in the end she bore me a child, a woman-child, and died.
 * 2008 — Greta G. Williams, What About the Whore?, Xulon Press (2008), ISBN 9781606471906, page 110:
 * She fills it and gives the first drink to the child. After your spirit has been filled, give the first drink, the first blessing to the woman-child.