ad feminam

American  

[ad fem-uh-nam, -nuhm, ahd] / æd ˈfɛm əˌnæm, -nəm, ɑd /

adjective

1. appealing to one's personal considerations or feelings about women, especially one's prejudices against them.

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Etymology

Origin of ad feminam

< Latin: literally, to the woman

Example Sentences

The next year, Dr. Barres published a scathing essay in Nature, in which he wrote that the ad feminam statements by Summers and other scholars were “nothing more than blaming the victim.”

From Washington Post

He stoops to ad feminam attacks instead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps few of them suspected the argumentum ad hominem--or rather ad feminam--in Woodhull's speech.

From Project Gutenberg

Argumentum ad feminam, as we said in old Rome and ancient Greece in the consulship of Diplodocus and Ichthyosauros.

From Project Gutenberg