Wife of Bath
Wife of Bath noun: an independent and strong woman who seeks her own pleasure and who advocates for herself in a marriage.
Noun
Wife of Bath (plural Wives of Bath)
- An independent and strong woman who seeks her own pleasure and who advocates for herself in a marriage.
- of the fizzy, lemon or sherbet-green Ranus ranus/plonked down in Trinity like a little Naugahyde pouffe,/of eighteen soldiers dead in Oriel,/of the weakness for a little fol-de-rol-de-rolly/suggested by the gap between the front teeth of the Wife of Bath1995, Paul Muldoon, The Annals of Chile: Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 22
- In its treatment of Mary's example as powerfully generative for the pious reading subject, the Book not only negotiates these poles but offers a more penetrating critique than the Wife of Bath of the problem of preaching as a "self-interested" masculine practice. The Marian act of serving...2008, Nicole R. Rice, Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature, Cambridge University Press, page 124
Forms of Wife of Bath
| plural | Wives of Bath |
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Origin of Wife of Bath
From the character from The Canterbury Tales.
Questions about Wife of Bath
- What does Wife of Bath mean?
- Wife of Bath means an independent and strong woman who seeks her own pleasure and who advocates for herself in a marriage.
- What part of speech is Wife of Bath?
- Wife of Bath is a noun.
- What is the plural of Wife of Bath?
- The plural of Wife of Bath is Wives of Bath.
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