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shrewdom

shrewdom noun: the realm or sphere of shrews (nagging, ill-tempered women).

Noun

shrewdom (uncountable)

  1. The realm or sphere of shrews (nagging, ill-tempered women).
    • Saint Teresa, paradoxical as such a judgment may sound, was a typical shrew, in this sense of the term. […] Her voluble egotism; her sense, not of radical bad being, as the really contrite have it, but of her 'faults' and 'imperfections' in the plural; her stereotyped humility and return upon...2018, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

Origin of shrewdom

From shrew + -dom.

Questions about shrewdom

What does shrewdom mean?
Shrewdom means the realm or sphere of shrews (nagging, ill-tempered women).
What part of speech is shrewdom?
Shrewdom is a noun.

Words near shrewdom in the dictionary

  1. shrewdities
  2. shrewdity
  3. shrewdly
  4. shrewdness
  5. shrewdnesses
  6. shrewdom
  7. shrewdy
  8. shrewed
  9. shrewing
  10. shrewish
  11. shrewishly

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