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weaker vessel

noun

Definitions

  1. A woman

    A woman; women collectively.

    • Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel.
    • Certainly, when Satan first made the Attempt upon Eve, he did not think he should have so easily conquered her. . . . Well might she be said to be the weaker Vessel, tho’ Adam himself had little enough to say for his being the stronger.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for weaker vessel. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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